Cisco APIC CLI Authenticated Local Privilege Escalation via Argument Validation
CVE-2025-20117 Published on February 26, 2025
Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Authenticated Command Injection Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco APIC could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying operating system of an affected device. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid administrative credentials.
This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of arguments that are passed to specific CLI commands. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by including crafted input as the argument of an affected CLI command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with the privileges of root.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-20117 can be exploited with local system access, and requires user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a small impact on confidentiality, a high impact on integrity, and no impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is a Command Injection Vulnerability?
The software constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component.
CVE-2025-20117 has been classified to as a Command Injection vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-20117
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Affected Versions
Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC):- Version 3.2(8d) is affected.
- Version 3.2(1m) is affected.
- Version 3.2(5e) is affected.
- Version 4.1(2m) is affected.
- Version 3.2(41d) is affected.
- Version 3.2(3s) is affected.
- Version 4.0(3c) is affected.
- Version 4.1(1k) is affected.
- Version 3.2(4d) is affected.
- Version 4.2(2e) is affected.
- Version 4.2(3j) is affected.
- Version 4.2(3n) is affected.
- Version 4.0(1h) is affected.
- Version 4.1(1l) is affected.
- Version 3.2(9f) is affected.
- Version 4.2(3l) is affected.
- Version 4.2(2g) is affected.
- Version 3.2(7k) is affected.
- Version 3.2(9b) is affected.
- Version 3.2(3j) is affected.
- Version 4.1(2u) is affected.
- Version 4.2(1l) is affected.
- Version 4.1(1a) is affected.
- Version 4.0(3d) is affected.
- Version 3.2(4e) is affected.
- Version 4.1(1i) is affected.
- Version 3.2(5f) is affected.
- Version 3.2(1l) is affected.
- Version 4.2(1i) is affected.
- Version 4.1(2o) is affected.
- Version 4.2(1g) is affected.
- Version 4.1(2g) is affected.
- Version 4.2(2f) is affected.
- Version 3.2(6i) is affected.
- Version 3.2(3i) is affected.
- Version 3.2(3n) is affected.
- Version 4.1(2x) is affected.
- Version 3.2(5d) is affected.
- Version 4.2(3q) is affected.
- Version 4.1(1j) is affected.
- Version 4.1(2w) is affected.
- Version 3.2(2o) is affected.
- Version 3.2(3r) is affected.
- Version 4.0(2c) is affected.
- Version 4.1(2s) is affected.
- Version 3.2(7f) is affected.
- Version 3.2(3o) is affected.
- Version 3.2(2l) is affected.
- Version 4.2(1j) is affected.
- Version 4.2(4i) is affected.
- Version 3.2(9h) is affected.
- Version 5.0(1k) is affected.
- Version 4.2(4k) is affected.
- Version 5.0(1l) is affected.
- Version 5.0(2e) is affected.
- Version 4.2(4o) is affected.
- Version 4.2(4p) is affected.
- Version 5.0(2h) is affected.
- Version 4.2(5k) is affected.
- Version 4.2(5l) is affected.
- Version 4.2(5n) is affected.
- Version 5.1(1h) is affected.
- Version 4.2(6d) is affected.
- Version 5.1(2e) is affected.
- Version 4.2(6g) is affected.
- Version 4.2(6h) is affected.
- Version 5.1(3e) is affected.
- Version 3.2(10e) is affected.
- Version 4.2(6l) is affected.
- Version 4.2(7f) is affected.
- Version 5.1(4c) is affected.
- Version 4.2(6o) is affected.
- Version 5.2(1g) is affected.
- Version 5.2(2e) is affected.
- Version 4.2(7l) is affected.
- Version 3.2(10f) is affected.
- Version 5.2(2f) is affected.
- Version 5.2(2g) is affected.
- Version 4.2(7q) is affected.
- Version 5.2(2h) is affected.
- Version 5.2(3f) is affected.
- Version 5.2(3e) is affected.
- Version 5.2(3g) is affected.
- Version 4.2(7r) is affected.
- Version 4.2(7s) is affected.
- Version 5.2(4d) is affected.
- Version 5.2(4e) is affected.
- Version 4.2(7t) is affected.
- Version 5.2(5d) is affected.
- Version 3.2(10g) is affected.
- Version 5.2(5c) is affected.
- Version 6.0(1g) is affected.
- Version 4.2(7u) is affected.
- Version 5.2(5e) is affected.
- Version 5.2(4f) is affected.
- Version 5.2(6e) is affected.
- Version 6.0(1j) is affected.
- Version 5.2(6g) is affected.
- Version 5.2(7f) is affected.
- Version 4.2(7v) is affected.
- Version 5.2(7g) is affected.
- Version 6.0(2h) is affected.
- Version 4.2(7w) is affected.
- Version 5.2(6h) is affected.
- Version 5.2(4h) is affected.
- Version 5.2(8d) is affected.
- Version 6.0(2j) is affected.
- Version 5.2(8e) is affected.
- Version 6.0(3d) is affected.
- Version 6.0(3e) is affected.
- Version 5.2(8f) is affected.
- Version 5.2(8g) is affected.
- Version 5.3(1d) is affected.
- Version 5.2(8h) is affected.
- Version 6.0(4c) is affected.
- Version 5.3(2a) is affected.
- Version 5.2(8i) is affected.
- Version 6.0(5h) is affected.
- Version 5.3(2b) is affected.
- Version 6.0(3g) is affected.
- Version 6.0(5j) is affected.
- Version 5.3(2c) is affected.
- Version 6.0(6c) is affected.
- Version 6.1(1f) is affected.
- Version 6.0(7e) is affected.
- Version 5.3(2d) is affected.
- Version 6.0(8d) is affected.
- Version 5.3(2e) is affected.
Exploit Probability
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