Vulnerability · Published Feb 26, 2025 · Assigned by cisco
CVE-2025-20117Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Authenticated Command Injection Vulnerability
Medium 5.1
In plain English
A medium-severity command injection in Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) from Cisco. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 8% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco APIC could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying operating system of an affected device. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid administrative credentials. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of arguments that are passed to specific CLI commands. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by including crafted input as the argument of an affected CLI command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with the privileges of root.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Cisco | Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) | 3.2(8d)3.2(1m)3.2(5e)4.1(2m)3.2(41d)3.2(3s)4.0(3c)4.1(1k) |
Weakness: CWE-77 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N