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CVE-2025-20163

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller SSH Host Key Vulnerability

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Not listed in CISA KEV
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

A vulnerability in the SSH implementation of Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to impersonate Cisco NDFC-managed devices. This vulnerability is due to insufficient SSH host key validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by performing a machine-in-the-middle attack on SSH connections to Cisco NDFC-managed devices, which could allow an attacker to intercept this traffic. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to impersonate a managed device and capture user credentials.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Cisco Cisco Data Center Network Manager

    11.2(1), 7.0(2), 10.3(2)IPFM, 10.1(1), 7.2(3), 7.2(2), 7.2(1), 11.0(1), 10.4(1), 10.2(1), 7.2(2a), 10.1(2), 7.1(1), 12.1(1), 11.1(1), 10.3(1), 10.3(1)R(1), 7.0(1), 10.0(1), 7.1(2), 11.4(1), 10.4(2), 11.3(1), 11.5(1), 11.5(2), 11.5(3), 12.0.1a, 11.5(3a), 12.0.2d, 12.0.2f, and 9 more

  • Cisco Cisco Nexus Dashboard

    3.1(1k), 3.1(1l), 3.2(1e), 3.2(1i), 3.3(1a), 3.3(1b), 3.3(2b), 4.0(1i), 3.3(2g)

References 1

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com