CVE-2025-20186A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of the Wireless LAN Controller feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.91%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 40% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of the Wireless LAN Controller feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with a lobby ambassador user account to perform a command injection attack against an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted input to the web-based management interface. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary Cisco IOS XE Software CLI commands with privilege level 15. Note: This vulnerability is exploitable only if the attacker obtains the credentials for a lobby ambassador account. This account is not configured by default.
Timeline
ID reserved
By cisco
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 10 months later
· 10 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ciscoCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.91% · top 40% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
- affected 16.12.8
- affected 16.12.4
- affected 16.12.4a
- affected 16.12.5
- affected 16.12.6
- affected 16.12.6a
- affected 16.12.7
- affected 17.2.2
- affected 17.2.3
- affected 17.3.1
- affected 17.3.2
- affected 17.3.3
- affected 17.3.1a
- affected 17.3.2a
- affected 17.3.4
- affected 17.3.5
- affected 17.3.4a
- affected 17.3.6
- affected 17.3.4c
- affected 17.3.5a
- affected 17.3.5b
- affected 17.3.7
- affected 17.3.8
- affected 17.3.8a
- affected 17.4.1
- affected 17.4.2
- affected 17.4.1a
- affected 17.4.1b
- affected 17.5.1
- affected 17.5.1a
- affected 17.6.1
- affected 17.6.2
- affected 17.6.1a
- affected 17.6.3
- affected 17.6.1y
- affected 17.6.3a
- affected 17.6.4
- affected 17.6.5
- affected 17.6.6
- affected 17.6.6a
- and 36 more
What to do
Exploitation: The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerability that is described in this advisory.
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-13897 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Badge for a README or a ticket
[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2025-20186)Record last updated .