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HTTP API Command Injection Vulnerability in CISCO 

Indian – Computer Emergency Response Team (https://www.cert-in.org.in)

Severity Rating: HIGH

Software Affected

Cisco IOS XE Software

Overview

A vulnerability has been reported in the HTTP API subsystem of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow a remote attacker to inject commands that will execute with root privileges into the underlying operating system.

Target Audience: 

All IT administrators and individuals responsible for maintaining and updating in HTTP API subsystem of Cisco IOS XE Software.

Risk Assessment:

High risk of data manipulation and service disruption.

Impact Assessment:

Potential impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the system.

Description

This vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation. An attacker with administrative privileges could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to an affected system and performing an API call with crafted input. Alternatively, an unauthenticated attacker could persuade a legitimate user with administrative privileges who is currently logged in to the system to click a crafted link.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as the root user.

Solution

Apply appropriate updates as mentioned in Cisco Advisory

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ios-xe-cmd-inject-rPJM8BGL

Vendor Information

CISCO

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ios-xe-cmd-inject-rPJM8BGL

References

CISCO

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ios-xe-cmd-inject-rPJM8BGL

CVE Name

CVE-2025-20334

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Thanks and Regards,

CERT-In

Incident Response Help Desk

e-mail: incident@cert-in.org.in

Phone: +91-11-22902657

Toll Free Number: 1800-11-4949

Toll Free Fax : 1800-11-6969

Web: http://www.cert-in.org.in

PGP Fingerprint: A768 083E 4475 5725 B81A A379 2156 C0C0 B620 D0B4

PGP Key information:

https://www.cert-in.org.in/s2cMainServlet?pageid=CONTACTUS

Postal address:

Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In)

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

Government of India

Electronics Niketan

6, C.G.O. Complex

New Delhi-110 003

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