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CVE-2025-20119: Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Authenticated Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.7 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2025-02-26 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-362
Description
A vulnerability in the system file permission handling of Cisco APIC could allow an authenticated, local attacker to overwrite critical system files, which could cause a DoS condition. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid administrative credentials. This vulnerability is due to a race condition with handling system files. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by doing specific operations on the file system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to overwrite system files, which could lead to the device being in an inconsistent state and cause a DoS condition.
Affected products
- Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC): 3.2(1l), 3.2(1m), 3.2(2l), 3.2(2o), 3.2(3i), 3.2(3j) (+122)
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