CVE-2025-20113 Cisco Unified Intelligence Center Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

High 7.1 Published 21 May 2025 Updated 26 Feb 2026

An authenticated attacker can elevate privileges to Administrator via crafted API requests, allowing unauthorized access, modification, or deletion of sensitive data.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2025-20113?

CVE-2025-20113 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cisco Unified Contact Center Express, published on 21 May 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability in Cisco Unified Intelligence Center could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to elevate privileges to Administrator for a limited set of functions on an affected system. This vulnerability is due to insufficient server-side validation of user-supplied parameters in API or HTTP requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting a crafted API or HTTP request to an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to access, modify, or delete data beyond the sphere of their intended access level, including obtaining potentially sensitive information stored in the system.

Weakness: CWE-602

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-20113?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Cisco Unified Contact Center Express, Cisco Unified Intelligence Center.

How do I fix CVE-2025-20113?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-20113 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2025-20113 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-20113 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-435v-q3pr-69h4.