Command Injection Vulnerability in Cisco IOS XE Software
CVE-2025-20338
What is CVE-2025-20338?
A command injection vulnerability exists in the CLI of Cisco IOS XE Software, allowing an authenticated local attacker with administrative privileges to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system. This issue arises from inadequate validation of user arguments within specific CLI commands. By leveraging valid administrative credentials and crafting specific commands, an attacker could potentially gain root access and execute malicious commands, compromising system integrity.

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Affected Version(s)
Cisco IOS XE Software 3.5.0E
Cisco IOS XE Software 3.5.1E
Cisco IOS XE Software 3.5.2E
References
CVSS V3.1
Timeline
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Exploit known to exist
Vulnerability published
Vulnerability Reserved