Cisco · Cisco Industrial Ethernet Switch Device Manager · CVE-2025-20164
**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions**
Cisco IOS Software (affected versions not specified)
**Description**
A vulnerability in the Cisco Industrial Ethernet Switch Device Manager (DM) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to elevate privileges due to insufficient validation of authorizations for authenticated users. The attacker could exploit this by sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected device, potentially elevating privileges to privilege level 15. To exploit this, the attacker must have valid credentials for a user account with privilege level 5 or higher. Read-only DM users are assigned privilege level 5.
**Recommendations**
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.