Cisco Identity Services Engine: 2 exploited vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-20281, CVE-2025-20337)

CVE-2025-20281: Cisco Identity Services Engine contains an injection vulnerability in a specific API of Cisco ISE and Cisco ISE-PIC due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input allowing an attacker to exploit this vulnerability by submitting a crafted API request. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to perform remote code execution and obtaining root privileges on an affected device. CVE-2025-20337: Cisco Identity Services Engine contains an injection vulnerability in a specific API of Cisco ISE and Cisco ISE-PIC due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input allowing an attacker to exploit this vulnerability by submitting a crafted API request. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to perform remote code execution and obtaining root privileges on an affected device. Added to CISA KEV on 2025-07-28.

Why this severity: CVSS 10.0 (CNA, v3.1); actively exploited (CISA KEV)

Started

Jul 28, 2025

Closed

Jul 28, 2025

CVEs

CVE-2025-20281CVE-2025-20337

• Cisco
• CISA KEV
• RCE

Notes & caveats

Derived from CISA KEV JSON feed catalogVersion 2026.10.21. CVSS from the CVE record (cvelistV5). Exact affected/fixed version strings are not always in the KEV record; verify against the vendor advisory URL. startedAt uses dateAdded (exploitation may have begun earlier; many entries are older CVEs newly confirmed as exploited in 2025).