CVE-2025-20118: Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Authenticated Command Injection Due to Sensitive Disclosure Vulnerability
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 17/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.15% (FIRST EPSS).
- Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
A vulnerability in the implementation of the internal system processes of Cisco APIC could allow an authenticated, local attacker to access sensitive information on an affected device. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid administrative credentials. This vulnerability is due to insufficient masking of sensitive information that is displayed through system CLI commands. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using reconnaissance techniques at the device CLI. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to access sensitive information on an affected device that could be used for additional attacks.
- Published
- Feb 26, 2025
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.1% · 4th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-212
Report tools
Action score
17
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 17 / 40 · 4.4 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.1%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
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- CNA · cisco
- 4.4
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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- No public exploit code on record
- No fixed version yet
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| cisco | application policy infrastructure controller | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:application_policy_infrastructure_controller |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- cisco application policy infrastructure controller3.2(10e)
- cisco application policy infrastructure controller3.2(10f)
- cisco application policy infrastructure controller3.2(10g)
- cisco application policy infrastructure controller3.2(1l)
- cisco application policy infrastructure controller3.2(1m)
- cisco application policy infrastructure controller3.2(2l)
- cisco application policy infrastructure controller3.2(2o)
- cisco application policy infrastructure controller3.2(3i)
- cisco application policy infrastructure controller3.2(3j)
- cisco application policy infrastructure controller3.2(3n)
- cisco application policy infrastructure controller3.2(3o)
- cisco application policy infrastructure controller3.2(3r)
- cisco application policy infrastructure controller3.2(3s)
- cisco application policy infrastructure controller3.2(41d)
- cisco application policy infrastructure controller3.2(4d)
- cisco application policy infrastructure controller3.2(4e)
- cisco application policy infrastructure controller3.2(5d)
- cisco application policy infrastructure controller3.2(5e)
- cisco application policy infrastructure controller3.2(5f)
- cisco application policy infrastructure controller3.2(6i)
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (cisco). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Cisco Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
- 3.2(8d), 3.2(1m), 3.2(5e), 4.1(2m), 3.2(41d), 3.2(3s), 4.0(3c), 4.1(1k), 3.2(4d), 4.2(2e), 4.2(3j), 4.2(3n) … (+28)affected
Same product
cisco: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2021-1581Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Command Injection and File Upload Vulnerabilities36Monitor
- CVE-2021-1579Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller App Privilege Escalation Vulnerability36Monitor
- CVE-2021-1578Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Privilege Escalation Vulnerability36Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2025-20116Feb 26, 2025 · Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability19Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2025-20117Feb 26, 2025 · Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Authenticated Command Injection Vulnerability26Monitor
- Later →CVE-2025-20119Feb 26, 2025 · Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Authenticated Local Denial of Service Vulnerability22Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
- Administrator privileges are required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- none
- Attack vector
- Local
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-212 · Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or TransferCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
nvd-secondary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
ATT&CK techniques
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Change log
No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.