CVE-2025-20281
CWE-74
105.0
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
Description
A vulnerability in a specific API of Cisco ISE and Cisco ISE-PIC could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the underlying operating system as root. The attacker does not require any valid credentials to exploit this vulnerability. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting a crafted API request. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to obtain root privileges on an affected device.
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 10.0
- Critical · v3.1
- EPSS
- 97.60%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Jul 2025
- Fix commit
- No known fix commit
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- CWE-74
- Published
- 25 Jun 2025
- Last modified 28 Oct 2025
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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time