# CVE-2025-20346: Cisco Catalyst Center Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

> Authenticated attackers with Observer credentials can escalate privileges to modify Administrator-only policy configurations in Cisco Catalyst Center.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **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-9w3p-45c2-rmjv

## What is CVE-2025-20346?

CVE-2025-20346 is a medium-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 could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute operations that should require Administrator privileges. The attacker would need valid read-only user credentials.

This vulnerability is due to improper role-based access control (RBAC). An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to an affected system and modifying certain policy configurations. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to modify policy configurations that are reserved for the Administrator role. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid credentials for a user account with at least the role of Observer.

Weakness: CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-20346?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Cisco Catalyst Center.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-20346?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-20346 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-20346 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-20346 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Digital Network Architecture Center (DNA Center)

- [CVE-2021-1264](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-1264/): Cisco DNA Center Command Runner Command Injection Vulnerability (critical 9.6)
- [CVE-2023-20055](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-20055/): Cisco DNA Center Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (high 8.0)
- [CVE-2021-1265](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-1265/): Cisco DNA Center Information Disclosure Vulnerability (high 7.7)
- [CVE-2026-20191](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-20191/): Cisco Catalyst Center Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2024-20350](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-20350/): Cisco Catalyst Center Static SSH Host Key Vulnerability (high 7.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-20346 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-20346 is a medium-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-2025-20346 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-2025-20346/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-20346/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-20346
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-20346
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-20346

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.