CVE-2025-20195: Cisco IOS XE

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform a CSRF attack and execute commands on the CLI of 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 an already authenticated user to follow a crafted link. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to clear the syslog, parser, and licensing logs on the affected device if the targeted user has privileges to clear those logs.

Affected products

• Cisco IOS XE: version 16.1.1 only; version 16.1.2 only; version 16.1.3 only; version 16.2.1 only; version 16.2.2 only; version 16.3.1 only; …

Published 2025-05-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.