Riskcovery

CVE-2025-20344

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Path Traversal Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
Aug 27, 2025
Updated
Feb 26, 2026
Reserved
Oct 10, 2024

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Description

A vulnerability in the backup restore functionality of Cisco Nexus Dashboard could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to conduct a path traversal attack on an affected device.

This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of the contents of a backup file. An attacker with valid Administrator credentials could exploit this vulnerability by restoring a crafted backup file to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain root privileges on the underlying shell on the affected device.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco Nexus DashboardCisco
  • 1.1(3e)Affected
  • 1.1(3c)Affected
  • 1.1(3d)Affected
  • 1.1(0d)Affected
  • 1.1(2i)Affected
  • 2.0(1b)Affected
  • 1.1(2h)Affected
  • 1.1(0c)Affected
  • 1.1(3f)Affected
  • 2.1(1d)Affected
  • 2.1(1e)Affected
  • 2.0(2g)Affected
  • 2.0(2h)Affected
  • 2.1(2d)Affected
  • 2.0(1d)Affected
  • 2.2(1h)Affected
  • 2.2(1e)Affected
  • 2.2(2d)Affected
  • 2.1(2f)Affected
  • 2.3(1c)Affected
  • 2.3(2b)Affected
  • 2.3(2c)Affected
  • 2.3(2d)Affected
  • 2.3(2e)Affected
  • 3.0(1f)Affected
  • and 14 more versions

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