CVE-2025-20341

Published Nov 13, 2025

Last updated 3 days ago

Overview

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CVE-2025-20341 is a vulnerability in the Cisco Catalyst Center Virtual Appliance that could allow a remote attacker with valid credentials to escalate privileges to Administrator. The vulnerability exists because of insufficient validation of user-supplied input. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker could submit a crafted HTTP request to the affected system. Successful exploitation could allow the attacker to perform unauthorized modifications to the system, including creating new user accounts or elevating their own privileges. To carry out this attack, the attacker needs to have valid credentials for a user account with at least the role of Observer.

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.
Source
psirt@cisco.com
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
8.8
Impact score
5.9
Exploitability score
2.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
HIGH

Weaknesses

psirt@cisco.com
CWE-284

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