9.9

CVE-2025-20286: cisco cisco identity services engine software Use of Hard-coded Password

CVSS: 9.9v3.1CriticalAnalyzed
Published 04-06-2025Last modified 05-06-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-20286 is a critical (CVSS 9.9) Use of Hard-coded Password vulnerability in cisco cisco identity services engine software. EPSS estimates a 1.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.9/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
1.11%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 04-06-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-06-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A vulnerability in Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) cloud deployments of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access sensitive data, execute limited administrative operations, modify system configurations, or disrupt services within the impacted systems. This vulnerability exists because credentials are improperly generated when Cisco ISE is being deployed on cloud platforms, resulting in different Cisco ISE deployments sharing the same credentials. These credentials are shared across multiple Cisco ISE deployments as long as the software release and cloud platform are the same. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by extracting the user credentials from Cisco ISE that is deployed in the cloud and then using them to access Cisco ISE that is deployed in other cloud environments through unsecured ports. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to access sensitive data, execute limited administrative operations, modify system configurations, or disrupt services within the impacted systems. Note: If the Primary Administration node is deployed in the cloud, then Cisco ISE is affected by this vulnerability. If the Primary Administration node is on-premises, then it is not affected.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.11%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

65%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.11% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.11%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Cisco2 products
  • cisco identity services engine software3.1.0 | 3.1.0 p1 | 3.1.0 p3 | 3.1.0 p2 | 3.2.0 | 3.1.0 p4 | 3.1.0 p5 | 3.2.0 p1 | 3.1.0 p6 | 3.2.0 p2 | 3.1.0 p7 | 3.3.0 | 3.2.0 p3 | 3.2.0 p4 | 3.1.0 p8 | 3.2.0 p5 | 3.2.0 p6 | 3.1.0 p9 | 3.3 Patch 2 | 3.3 Patch 1 | 3.3 Patch 3 | 3.4.0 | 3.2.0 p7 | 3.3 Patch 4 | 3.4 Patch 1 | 3.1.0 p10 | 3.3 Patch 5
  • identity_services_engine3.1.0 | 3.1.0:patch1 | 3.1.0:patch10 | 3.1.0:patch2 | 3.1.0:patch3 | 3.1.0:patch4 | 3.1.0:patch5 | 3.1.0:patch6 | 3.1.0:patch7 | 3.1.0:patch8 | 3.1.0:patch9 | 3.2.0 | 3.2.0:patch1 | 3.2.0:patch2 | 3.2.0:patch3 | 3.2.0:patch4 | 3.2.0:patch5 | 3.2.0:patch6 | 3.2.0:patch7 | 3.3.0 | 3.3.0:patch1 | 3.3.0:patch2 | 3.3.0:patch3 | 3.3.0:patch4 | 3.3.0:patch5 | 3.4.0 | 3.4.0:patch1

1 vendor · 2 products

References

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