CVE-2025-20344: Cisco Nexus Dashboard

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in the backup restore functionality of Cisco Nexus Dashboard could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to conduct a path traversal attack on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of the contents of a backup file. An attacker with valid Administrator credentials could exploit this vulnerability by restoring a crafted backup file to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain root privileges on the underlying shell on the affected device.

Affected products

• Cisco Nexus Dashboard: before 4.1\(1g\) (fixed in 4.1\(1g\))

Published 2025-08-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.