CVE-2025-20197
A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with privilege level 15 to elevate…
- 6.7MediumCVSS base score
- 0.17%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 93% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker with privilege level 15 to elevate privileges to root on the underlying operating system of an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation when processing specific configuration commands. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by including crafted input in specific configuration commands. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate privileges to root on the underlying operating system of an affected device. The security impact rating (SIR) of this advisory has been raised to High because an attacker could gain access to the underlying operating system of the affected device and perform potentially undetected actions. Note: The attacker must have privileges to enter configuration mode on the affected device. This is usually referred to as privilege level 15.
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 | Medium6.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High8.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.17% · top 93% of all CVEs (11 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: Medium 6.7.
Affected products
- affected 3.7.0S
- affected 3.7.1S
- affected 3.7.2S
- affected 3.7.3S
- affected 3.7.4S
- affected 3.7.5S
- affected 3.7.6S
- affected 3.7.7S
- affected 3.7.4aS
- affected 3.7.2tS
- affected 3.7.0bS
- affected 3.7.1aS
- affected 3.8.0S
- affected 3.8.1S
- affected 3.8.2S
- affected 3.9.1S
- affected 3.9.0S
- affected 3.9.2S
- affected 3.9.1aS
- affected 3.9.0aS
- affected 3.11.1S
- affected 3.11.2S
- affected 3.11.0S
- affected 3.11.3S
- affected 3.11.4S
- affected 3.12.0S
- affected 3.12.1S
- affected 3.12.2S
- affected 3.12.3S
- affected 3.12.0aS
- affected 3.12.4S
- affected 3.13.0S
- affected 3.13.1S
- affected 3.13.2S
- affected 3.13.3S
- affected 3.13.4S
- affected 3.13.5S
- affected 3.13.2aS
- affected 3.13.0aS
- affected 3.13.5aS
- and 289 more
What to do
Exploitation: The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerabilities that are 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-2025-13893 (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-2025-20197)Record last updated .