[CIVN-2025-0314] Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in CISCO

By Published On: November 16, 2025

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Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in CISCO 
Indian – Computer Emergency Response Team (https://www.cert-in.org.in)
Severity Rating: MEDIUM
Systems Affected
Cisco Catalyst Center
Overview
A vulnerability has been reported 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.
Target Audience: 
All IT administrators and individuals responsible for maintaining and updating in Cisco Catalyst Center.
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 improper role-based access control (RBAC). An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to an affected system and modifying certain policy configurations.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow the attacker to modify policy configurations that are reserved for the Administrator role.
Solution
Apply appropriate updates as mentioned in Cisco Advisory
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-privesc-catc-rYjReeLU
Vendor Information
CISCO
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-privesc-catc-rYjReeLU
References
CISCO
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-privesc-catc-rYjReeLU
CVE Name
CVE-2025-20346
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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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