CVE-2025-20313

State
Published
Severity
6.7 Medium
Published
Sep 24, 2025
Updated
Feb 26, 2026
Reserved
Oct 10, 2024

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Description

Multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS XE Software of could allow an authenticated, local attacker with level-15 privileges or an unauthenticated attacker with physical access to the device to execute persistent code at boot time and break the chain of trust. These vulnerabilities are due path traversal and improper image integrity validation. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute persistent code on the underlying operating system. Because this allows the attacker to bypass a major security feature of the device, Cisco has raised the Security Impact Rating (SIR) of this advisory from Medium to High. For more information about these vulnerabilities, see the Details ["#details"] section of this advisory.

ERP

Scores

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

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco IOS XE SoftwareCisco
  • 17.3.1Affected
  • 17.3.2Affected
  • 17.3.3Affected
  • 17.3.1aAffected
  • 17.3.1wAffected
  • 17.3.2aAffected
  • 17.3.1xAffected
  • 17.3.1zAffected
  • 17.3.4Affected
  • 17.3.5Affected
  • 17.3.4aAffected
  • 17.3.6Affected
  • 17.3.4bAffected
  • 17.3.4cAffected
  • 17.3.5aAffected
  • 17.3.5bAffected
  • 17.3.7Affected
  • 17.3.8Affected
  • 17.3.8aAffected
  • 17.4.1Affected
  • 17.4.2Affected
  • 17.4.1aAffected
  • 17.4.1bAffected
  • 17.4.2aAffected
  • 17.5.1Affected
  • and 94 more versions

References

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