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CVE-2025-20283

Affected software2 products, listed below
Severity7.2 High CVSS 3.1 2 scores
WeaknessCWE-74
Published16 Jul 2025
Updated17 Jun 2026

Description

A vulnerability in a specific API of Cisco ISE and Cisco ISE-PIC could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the underlying operating system as root. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An attacker with valid credentials could exploit this vulnerability by submitting a crafted API request. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands as the root user. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid high-privileged credentials.

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 13% chance in 30 days A model's forecast, not a report of exploitation. Higher than 96% of all scored CVEs.

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.

CVSS

7.2 HIGH v3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 2 metrics

We show the highest score from the newest CVSS version. Scores from different versions can't be compared, and the first score listed is sometimes a 0.0 placeholder.

VersionScoreBandVectorAssignerType
CVSS 3.1 7.2 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H NVD Primary published
CVSS 3.1 6.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N psirt@cisco.com Secondary

Affected software and releases

Products and versions

2 products, 20 version entries
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
nvd cisco identity services engine generic 3.3.0 · < 3.3.0 · 3.3.0:patch1 · 3.3.0:patch2 · 3.3.0:patch3 · 3.3.0:patch4 · 3.3.0:patch5 · 3.3.0:patch6 · 3.4.0 · 3.4.0:patch1
nvd cisco identity services engine passive identity connector generic 3.3.0 · < 3.3.0 · 3.3.0:patch1 · 3.3.0:patch2 · 3.3.0:patch3 · 3.3.0:patch4 · 3.3.0:patch5 · 3.3.0:patch6 · 3.4.0 · 3.4.0:patch1

References

URLTags
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ise-multi-3VpsXOxO Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published2025-07-16By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-06-17NVD's own last-modified date for this record.