CVE-2025-20344 Cisco Nexus Dashboard Path Traversal Vulnerability

What is CVE-2025-20344?

CVE-2025-20344 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Cisco Nexus Dashboard, published on 27 Aug 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability in the backup restore functionality of Cisco Nexus Dashboard could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to conduct a path traversal attack on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of the contents of a backup file. An attacker with valid Administrator credentials could exploit this vulnerability by restoring a crafted backup file to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain root privileges on the underlying shell on the affected device.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-20344?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Nexus Dashboard.

How do I fix CVE-2025-20344?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-20344 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2025-20344 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-20344 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Nexus Dashboard

• CVE-2022-20857 Cisco Nexus Dashboard Unauthorized Access Vulnerabilities Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-20858 Cisco Nexus Dashboard Unauthorized Access Vulnerabilities Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-20861 Cisco Nexus Dashboard Unauthorized Access Vulnerabilities Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-20163 Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller SSH Host Key Vulnerability High 8.7
• CVE-2024-20281 Cross-site request forgery in Cisco Data Center Network Manager High 7.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-r35c-j587-4x58.