PT-2025-20258 · Cisco · Cisco Ios Xe

Published 2025-05-07 · Updated 2025-07-11 · CVE-2025-20186

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.0

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco IOS XE Software (affected versions not specified)

Description A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of the Wireless LAN Controller feature could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with a lobby ambassador user account to perform a command injection attack. This is due to insufficient input validation, allowing an attacker to send crafted input and potentially execute arbitrary Cisco IOS XE Software CLI commands with privilege level 15. The vulnerability is exploitable only if the attacker obtains the credentials for a lobby ambassador account, which is not configured by default.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

OS Command Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-78

Related Identifiers

BDU:2025-08246

CVE-2025-20186

Affected Products

Cisco Ios Xe

References · 10

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-20186 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2025-08246 · Security Note
• https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-webui-cmdinj-gVn3OKNC · Vendor Advisory
• https://safe-surf.ru/specialists/bulletins-nkcki/720577 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-20186 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1920246404259140085 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/syedaquib77/status/1920177323564748961 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/cybercronai/status/1920504091177853003 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/CCBalert/status/1920848814115631199 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/128552 · Telegram Post