[Vulnerability Alert] Two Critical Security Vulnerabilities Discovered in Cisco Identity Services

publish date : 2025-07-10 update date : 2025-07-10

Source: Ministry of education information & communication security contingency platform

Publication Number TACERT-ANA-2025063008061212 Publication Time 2025/06/30 08:52
Incident Type ANA-Vulnerability Alert Discovery Time 2025/06/30 08:52
Impact Level Low  
[Subject]
[Vulnerability Alert] Two Critical Security Vulnerabilities Discovered in Cisco Identity Services
[Content]
Forwarded from TWCERTCC-200-202506-00000018

Cisco's Identity Services Engine (ISE) is an identity-based security policy management platform that gathers contextual information from networks and user devices, allowing organizations to enforce policies and make access control decisions across network infrastructures. Cisco has recently disclosed two critical security vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-20281, CVSS: 9.8 and CVE-2025-20282, CVSS: 10.0), along with corresponding updates.

[CVE-2025-20281, CVSS: 9.8]
This vulnerability affects specific APIs in Cisco ISE and ISE-PIC. It allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on the underlying operating system with root privileges, without requiring valid credentials.

[CVE-2025-20282, CVSS: 10.0]
This vulnerability affects internal APIs in Cisco ISE and ISE-PIC. It allows unauthenticated remote attackers to upload arbitrary files to the affected devices and execute them as root on the underlying operating system.

Information Sharing Level: WHITE (Information content can be publicly disclosed)
[Affected Platform]
CVE-2025-20281: Cisco ISE and ISE-PIC versions 3.3, 3.4
CVE-2025-20282: Cisco ISE and ISE-PIC version 3.4 
[Recommended Actions]
Please apply the fixes according to Cisco’s official advisory:
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ise-unauth-rce-ZAd2GnJ6
[Reference]
https://www.twcert.org.tw/tw/cp-169-10220-062b3-1.html
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