CVE-2025-20281## CVE-2025-20281 — Cisco ISE Critical RCE Vulnerability 🛑
### 📌 Description:
CVE-2025-20281 is a **critical, unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE)** vulnerability affecting **Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)** and **ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE‑PIC)**.
An attacker can exploit this flaw **without authentication** to execute **arbitrary commands as root** on the system. The vulnerability arises from **insufficient input validation** in a specific API endpoint.
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### 🚨 Severity:
* **CVSS v3.1 Score**: 9.8 / 10 (Critical ⚫)
* **Attack Vector**: Remote
* **Privileges Required**: None
* **User Interaction**: None
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### 🧱 Affected Products:
* **Cisco ISE / ISE‑PIC**
* **Vulnerable**: Versions 3.3 and 3.4.0
* **Not Affected**: Versions 3.2 and earlier
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### 🛡️ Fixed Versions:
* Cisco ISE 3.3 ➝ **Patch 6**
* Cisco ISE 3.4 ➝ **Patch 2**
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### 🧠 Technical Summary:
* **Vulnerability Type**: Input validation flaw in exposed API
* **Impact**: Full root-level command execution
* **Authentication**: Not required
* **Exploitation Complexity**: Low
* **Current Exploits**: None publicly known at this time
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### ✅ Recommendations:
1. **Immediately apply patches** (3.3 Patch 6 or 3.4 Patch 2).
2. **Check Cisco ISE deployments** to identify affected versions.
3. **Monitor logs** for unusual API requests or behavior.
4. **Limit external access** to ISE management interfaces.
5. **Use detection tools** to scan and verify patching success.
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### 🧭 Summary Table:
| 📆 Date | 🗓️ Event Description |
| ------------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| June 2025 | Vulnerability disclosed |
| June 25, 2025 | Cisco released security advisory and patches |
| July 2025 | Security community confirmed critical risk |
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## 👨🏻💻 Prerequisites:
+ Python 3.6+
+ Install dependencies:
```
pip install requests urllib3
```
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