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🛡️ CVE-2025-20145 — ios-xr

🟡 CVSS 5.8 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-264 NVD
5.8
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Description

A vulnerability in the access control list (ACL) processing in the egress direction of Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass a configured ACL.

This vulnerability exists because certain packets are handled incorrectly when they are received on an ingress interface on one line card and destined out of an egress interface on another line card where the egress ACL is configured. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by attempting to send traffic through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass an egress ACL on the affected device.

For more information about this vulnerability, see the section of this advisory.

Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-20145 is classified as CWE-264: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls. Permissions or privilege boundaries are set or enforced incorrectly, letting an actor act beyond their intended level.

Affected software

CVE-2025-20145 is recorded against 1 package.

  • ios-xr

Timeline and source

Published on 12 March 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

blog.apnic.net
sec.cloudapps.cisco.com

Other advisories for this package

ios-xr has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-264: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-264
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-03-12
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
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