Vulnerability · Published May 7, 2025 · Assigned by cisco

CVE-2025-20164

High 8.3

In plain English

A high-severity missing authorization in IOS from Cisco. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 28% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.3High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 72.2% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability in the Cisco Industrial Ethernet Switch Device Manager (DM) of Cisco IOS Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to elevate privileges. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of authorizations for authenticated users. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate privileges to privilege level 15. To exploit this vulnerability, 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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Cisco	IOS	15.0(2)SE815.0(2)EA15.0(2)EA115.2(2)E15.2(2)E115.2(3)E115.2(2)E215.2(2)E3

Weakness: CWE-862 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H

References

cisco-sa-ios-http-privesc-wCRd5e3