# CVE-2025-20281: A Cisco Identity Services Engine bug is being used in attacks

Status: Being used now (CISA KEV, added 2025-07-28)
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## Agent prompt (read-only)
Read-only check, change nothing, send nothing anywhere.
Is Cisco Identity Services Engine (CVE-2025-20281) installed or running on this machine or in this project?
1. Find every copy and its version (apps, packages, containers, lockfiles).
2. Compare each version against the vendor's fixed version for CVE-2025-20281. Quote the vendor page you used.
3. Report a table: where, version, fixed version, status (exposed / fixed / not installed / unsure).
4. List the exact update steps, but do not run them.

## Official description
Cisco Identity Services Engine contains an injection vulnerability in a specific API of Cisco ISE and Cisco ISE-PIC due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input allowing an attacker to exploit this vulnerability by submitting a crafted API request. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to perform remote code execution and obtaining root privileges on an affected device.

## Sources
- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ise-unauth-rce-ZAd2GnJ6
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-20281
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-20281

Generated by isitexploited.org from public sources. Verify version numbers against the vendor before acting.