PT-2025-8732 · Cisco · Cisco Apic

Jean-Michel Huguet + 1 · CVE-2025-20117 · Published 2025-02-26 · Updated 2025-07-31

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.7

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

Description A vulnerability in the CLI could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying operating system of an affected device. The attacker must have valid administrative credentials to exploit this issue. This is due to insufficient validation of arguments passed to specific CLI commands, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of root by including crafted input as the argument of an affected CLI command.

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

Command Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-77

Related Identifiers

BDU:2025-05653

CVE-2025-20117

Affected Products

Cisco Apic

References · 8

• https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-apic-multi-vulns-9ummtg5 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-20117 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2025-05653 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-20117 · Vendor Advisory
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1894867667716317235 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cveNotify/130435 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvedetector/18944 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/syedaquib77/status/1894801206050238870 · Twitter Post