# CVE-2025-20341: Cisco Catalyst Center Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

> Authenticated attackers with Observer role can escalate privileges to Administrator via crafted HTTP requests in Cisco Catalyst Center.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 13 Nov 2025
- **Updated:** 26 Feb 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-8m7g-q5hf-chf5

## What is CVE-2025-20341?

CVE-2025-20341 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cisco Digital Network Architecture Center (DNA Center), published on 13 Nov 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst Center Virtual Appliance could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to elevate privileges to Administrator on an affected system.

This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting a crafted HTTP request to an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to perform unauthorized modifications to the system, including creating new user accounts or elevating their own privileges on an affected system. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid credentials for a user account with at least the role of Observer.

Weakness: CWE-284 (Improper Access Control)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-20341?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-20341?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-20341 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-20341 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-20341 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-20341 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-20341 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cisco Digital Network Architecture Center (DNA Center), published on 13 Nov 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-20341 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Cisco Digital Network Architecture Center (DNA Center). No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-20341/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-20341/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-20341
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-20341
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-20341

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-20341/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.