CVE-2022-20961: Cisco Identity Services Engine

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack and perform arbitrary actions on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient CSRF protections for the web-based management interface of an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by persuading a user of the interface to follow a crafted link. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to perform arbitrary actions on the affected device with the privileges of the target user.

Affected products

• Cisco Identity Services Engine: before 2.6.0 (fixed in 2.6.0); version 2.6.0 only; version 2.7.0 only; version 3.0.0 only; version 3.1 only

Published 2022-11-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.