CVE-2025-20117 Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Authenticated Command Injection Vulnerability
An authenticated local attacker with admin credentials can execute arbitrary root commands on Cisco APIC via insufficient CLI argument validation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-20117?
CVE-2025-20117 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC), published on 26 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-77
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-20117?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller.
How do I fix CVE-2025-20117?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-20117 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.
Is CVE-2025-20117 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-20117 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
- CVE-2021-1393 Cisco Application Services Engine Unauthorized Access Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2021-1396 Cisco Application Services Engine Unauthorized Access Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2021-1577 Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Arbitrary File Read and Write Vulnerability
- CVE-2023-20011 Cross-site request forgery in Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
- CVE-2021-1578 Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Sources
Also known as GHSA-fj42-7xm3-95v2.