{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-20248 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2025-20248 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2025-20248 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Ios Xr, published on 10 Sep 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-20248 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-20248 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Ios Xr, published on 10 Sep 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-20248 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Cisco Ios Xr. 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-2025-20248/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-20248/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-20248","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-20248/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-20248","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-q9rh-69gg-78fc"],"analysis":{"component_type":"network_device","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution","privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Cisco IOS XR","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"An authenticated local attacker with root privileges can bypass image signature verification to load unsigned software on Cisco IOS XR devices.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"security_feature_bypass"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"cisco","cpe":[{"product":"ios_xr","vendor":"cisco"}],"cvss":{"score":6,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-347","name":"Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature"}],"description":"A vulnerability in the installation process of Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to bypass Cisco IOS XR Software image signature verification and load unsigned software on an affected device. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have root-system privileges on the affected device.\r\n\r\nThis vulnerability is due to incomplete validation of files during the installation of an .iso file. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by modifying contents of the .iso image and then installing and activating it on the device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to load an unsigned file as part of the image activation process.","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":"Cisco IOS XR Software Image Verification Bypass Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-20248","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"cisco:ios_xr","products":["cisco:ios_xr"],"type":"security_feature_bypass","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Cross-site scripting in Cisco Webex Meetings","id":"CVE-2025-20250"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Cross-site scripting in Cisco Webex Meetings","id":"CVE-2025-20247"},"products":["Cisco IOS XR Software"],"published":"2025-09-10","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Cisco IOS XR Software Discovery Protocol Format String","id":"CVE-2020-3118","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2020-02-05"},{"cvss_score":8.6,"headline":"Cisco IOS XR Software DVMRP Memory Exhaustion","id":"CVE-2020-3569","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2020-09-23"},{"cvss_score":8.6,"headline":"Cisco IOS XR Software DVMRP Memory Exhaustion","id":"CVE-2020-3566","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2020-08-29"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Cisco IOS XR Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Denial-of-Service","id":"CVE-2010-3035","kev_date_added":"2022-03-25","published":"2010-08-30"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"Cisco IOS XR Open Port","id":"CVE-2022-20821","kev_date_added":"2022-05-23","published":"2022-05-26"},{"cvss_score":5.9,"headline":"Cisco IOS XR Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Denial-of-Service","id":"CVE-2009-2055","kev_date_added":"2022-03-25","published":"2009-08-19"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Cisco IOS XR Software Security Hardening Release: September 2026","id":"CVE-2026-20274","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-09-02"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"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":"An authenticated local attacker with root privileges can bypass image signature verification to load unsigned software on Cisco IOS XR devices.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-20248/"}