CISA KEV entry
CVE-2025-20337Cisco Identity Services Engine Injection Vulnerability
Cisco Identity Services Engine. Added to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue on 28 July 2025.
Data status: a source is stale
Last synced CISA catalogue version 2026.11.04 (released 4 November 2026) 1,768 entries Updated manually
- Date added
- 2025-07-28
- Federal due date
- 2025-08-18 21 days after it was added; passed at the sync of 2026-11-05
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- Forensic triage (BOD 26-04)
- No
- CVSS
- 10.0 Critical CVSS 3.1, scored by psirt@cisco.com
- EPSS
- 74.49% percentile 99.4, scored 2026-11-04
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation active, automatable yes, technical impact total
- NVD status
- Analyzed published 2025-07-16, 12 days before the KEV listing
BOD 26-04 remediation window
With CISA's SSVC answers for this CVE (automatable: yes, technical impact: total), BOD 26-04 Table 1 gives 3 days and forensic triage on a publicly exposed asset (row 1) and 3 days and forensic triage on an asset that is not publicly exposed (row 9) S06. The catalogue due date, 21 days after the date added, was set before BOD 26-04 took effect on 10 June 2026 S06. The directive binds US federal civilian executive branch agencies only.
What CISA says
Short description
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.
Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Notes
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ise-unauth-rce-ZAd2GnJ6 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-20337
CWE in the catalogue
CWE-74
Official links
- CISA KEV catalogue entry cisa.gov
- NVD record nvd.nist.gov
Vendor advisory and patch links
References NVD tags Vendor Advisory or Patch, exactly as NVD lists them.
- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ise-unauth-rce-ZAd2GnJ6 Vendor Advisory
Links in CISA's notes
NVD details
- CWE (NVD)
- CWE-74 by psirt@cisco.com
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H- CVSS versions in NVD
- V31
- Last modified in NVD
- 2026-06-17T08:41:29.520
Where each value comes from
| Field | Source | Fetched, UTC | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catalogue fields | CISA KEV JSON, version 2026.11.04 | 2026-11-05 11:38 | current |
| NVD published, status, CVSS, CWE, vendor links | NVD CVE API 2.0; CVSS: NVD (psirt@cisco.com) | 2026-11-03 12:37 | current at 2026-11-05 11:38 |
| EPSS | FIRST EPSS API, scores of 2026-11-04 | 2026-11-05 11:38 | current |
| CISA SSVC | CISA ADP (via NVD), record of 2025-07-26 | 2026-11-03 12:37 | current |
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