{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-20164 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2025-20164 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2025-20164 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cisco IOS, published on 7 May 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-20164 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-20164 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cisco IOS, published on 7 May 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-20164 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Cisco IOS. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-20164/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-20164/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-20164","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-20164/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-20164","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-3grg-fvvv-2qrm"],"analysis":{"component_type":"network_device","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Cisco IOS Switch","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated attackers with privilege level 5 can elevate to level 15 via crafted HTTP requests in Cisco IOS Device Manager.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"cisco","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":8.3,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-862","name":"Missing Authorization"}],"description":"A vulnerability in the Cisco Industrial Ethernet Switch Device Manager (DM) of Cisco IOS Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to elevate privileges.\r\n\r This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of authorizations for authenticated users. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate privileges to privilege level 15.\r\n\r To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid credentials for a user account with privilege level 5 or higher. Read-only DM users are assigned privilege level 5.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Privilege escalation in IOS","id":"CVE-2025-20164","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Cisco BroadWorks SIP Denial of Service Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-20165"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller SSH Host Key Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-20163"},"products":["IOS"],"published":"2025-05-07","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-02-26","vendors":["Cisco"]},"summary":"Authenticated attackers with privilege level 5 can elevate to level 15 via crafted HTTP requests in Cisco IOS Device Manager.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-20164/"}