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CVE-2025-20264 Cisco Identity Services Engine

Affected softwareCisco Identity Services Engine
Severity6.4 Medium CVSS 3.1
WeaknessCWE-285
Published25 Jun 2025
Updated17 Jun 2026

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to bypass the authorization mechanisms for specific administrative functions. This vulnerability is due to insufficient authorization enforcement mechanisms for users created by SAML SSO integration with an external identity provider. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting a series of specific commands to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to modify a limited number of system settings, including some that would result in a system restart. In single-node Cisco ISE deployments, devices that are not authenticated to the network will not be able to authenticate until the Cisco ISE system comes back online. 

Exploitation status

No public exploit

No exploit has been reported in the sources we check. Published a year ago.

  • CISA KEV not listed
  • VulnCheck KEV not listed
  • CISA Vulnrichment exploitation: none
  • Indexed PoC none indexed
  • EPSS 0.36% chance in 30 days

Waratek protection

Outside Waratek scope

A Java vulnerability, but not one Waratek protects. It affects only Java on a user's desktop (applets, Web Start, JavaFX, the installer), sits in a product the Waratek agent can't be installed into, or is in a package we don't expect in business applications. The decision below says which.

  • Protection none
  • Action not pursued none
  • Review automated Upstream data
  • Record active
Decided by The only affected product being a sealed appliance image, where Java runs but no -javaagent can be attached
Finding This CVE names only products the Waratek agent cannot be installed into (cisco/identity_services_engine). They ship as sealed appliance images or as native code with no application JVM, so there is no start-up line to add -javaagent to. The vulnerability may well be a Java one; it is permanently out of ARMR's reach rather than outside its subject.

Affected software and releases

Products and versions

1 product, 35 version entries
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
nvd cisco identity services engine generic 3.0.0 · 3.0.0:patch1 · 3.0.0:patch2 · 3.0.0:patch3 · 3.0.0:patch4 · 3.0.0:patch5 · 3.0.0:patch6 · 3.0.0:patch7 · 3.0.0:patch8 · 3.1.0 · 3.1.0:patch1 · 3.1.0:patch2 · 3.1.0:patch3 · 3.1.0:patch4 · 3.1.0:patch5 · 3.1.0:patch6 · 3.1.0:patch7 · 3.1.0:patch8 · 3.1.0:patch9 · 3.1.0:patch10 · 3.2.0 · 3.2.0:patch1 · 3.2.0:patch2 · 3.2.0:patch3 · 3.2.0:patch4 · 3.2.0:patch5 · 3.2.0:patch6 · 3.2.0:patch7 · 3.3.0 · 3.3.0:patch1 · 3.3.0:patch2 · 3.3.0:patch3 · 3.3.0:patch4 · 3.4.0 · 3.4.0:patch1

References

URLTags
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ise-auth-bypass-mVfKVQAU Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published2025-06-25By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-06-17NVD's own last-modified date for this record.