CVE-2025-20119: Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller

Medium severity, CVSS 5.7. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in the system file permission handling of Cisco APIC could allow an authenticated, local attacker to overwrite critical system files, which could cause a DoS condition. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid administrative credentials. This vulnerability is due to a race condition with handling system files. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by doing specific operations on the file system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to overwrite system files, which could lead to the device being in an inconsistent state and cause a DoS condition.

Affected products

• Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller: version 3.2(1l) only; version 3.2(1m) only; version 3.2(2l) only; version 3.2(2o) only; version 3.2(3i) only; version 3.2(3j) only; …

Published 2025-02-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.