CISCO-SA-IOS-HTTP-PRIVESC-WCRD5E3

CISCO-SA-IOS-HTTP-PRIVESC-WCRD5E3 PUBLISHED CVSS 8.300000190734863 HIGH

Record from circl · Published May 7, 2025

A vulnerability in the Cisco Industrial Ethernet Switch Device Manager (DM) of Cisco IOS Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to elevate privileges. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of authorizations for authenticated users. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate privileges to privilege level 15. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid credentials for a user account with privilege level 5 or higher. Read-only DM users are assigned privilege level 5. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability. This advisory is part of the May 2025 release of the Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication. For a complete list of the advisories and links to them, see Cisco Event Response: May 2025 Semiannual Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication ["https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/viewErp.x?alertId=ERP-75279"].

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

8.300000190734863

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
	15.2(3)E1
	15.2(2b)E
	15.0(2)EA
	15.2(2)E5
	15.2(5)E1
	15.2(2)E6
	15.2(2)E4
	15.0(2)EA1
	15.2(2)E3
	15.2(3)E4
	15.0(2)SE8
	15.2(2a)E2
	15.2(5a)E1
	15.2(5)E
	15.2(2)E1
	15.2(2)E
	15.2(3)E3
	15.2(3)E2
	15.2(2)E2
	15.2(2)E5a

Timeline

May 7, 2025 CVE Published

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