CVE-2025-20308

Cisco Spaces Connector Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
6.0 Medium
Published
Jul 2, 2025
Updated
Feb 26, 2026
Reserved
Oct 10, 2024

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Description

A vulnerability in Cisco Spaces Connector could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges and execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system as root.

This vulnerability is due to insufficient restrictions during the execution of specific CLI commands. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to the Cisco Spaces Connector CLI as the spacesadmin user and executing a specific command with crafted parameters. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate privileges from the spacesadmin user and execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system as root.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.0 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Ncisco

Weaknesses

  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco DNA Spaces ConnectorCisco
  • Connector 3 Jan 2023Affected
  • Connector 3-May 2023Affected
  • Connector 3-Jan 2024Affected
  • Connector 3-Jun 2024Affected
  • Connector 3-May 2024Affected
  • Connector 3-Jul 2024Affected
  • Connector 3-Jan 2025Affected

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