Riskcovery

CVE-2025-20338

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

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Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with administrative privileges to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying operating system of an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user arguments that are passed to specific CLI commands. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to the device CLI with valid administrative (level 15) credentials and using crafted commands at the CLI prompt. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands 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-141 Improper Neutralization of Parameter/Argument Delimiters

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco IOS XE SoftwareCisco
  • 3.5.0EAffected
  • 3.5.1EAffected
  • 3.5.2EAffected
  • 3.5.3EAffected
  • 3.11.1SAffected
  • 3.11.2SAffected
  • 3.11.0SAffected
  • 3.11.3SAffected
  • 3.11.4SAffected
  • 3.12.0SAffected
  • 3.12.1SAffected
  • 3.12.2SAffected
  • 3.12.3SAffected
  • 3.12.0aSAffected
  • 3.12.4SAffected
  • 3.13.0SAffected
  • 3.13.1SAffected
  • 3.13.2SAffected
  • 3.13.3SAffected
  • 3.13.4SAffected
  • 3.13.5SAffected
  • 3.13.2aSAffected
  • 3.13.0aSAffected
  • 3.13.5aSAffected
  • 3.13.6SAffected
  • and 349 more versions

References

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