Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller up to 6.1(1f) cross site scripting

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A vulnerability has been found in Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller and classified as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function. This manipulation causes cross site scripting. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2025-20116. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability has been found in Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability in the web UI of Cisco APIC could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform a stored XSS attack on an affected system. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid administrative credentials. This vulnerability is due to improper input validation in the web UI. An authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by injecting malicious code into specific pages of the web UI. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary script code in the context of the web UI or access sensitive, browser-based information.

It is possible to read the advisory at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-20116 since 10/10/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 216917 (Cisco APIC Multiple Vulnerabilities (cisco-sa-apic-multi-vulns-9ummtg5)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (216917). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• Cisco

Name

• Application Policy Infrastructure Controller

Version

• 3.2(1l)
• 3.2(1m)
• 3.2(2l)
• 3.2(2o)
• 3.2(3i)
• 3.2(3j)
• 3.2(3n)
• 3.2(3o)
• 3.2(3r)
• 3.2(3s)
• 3.2(4d)
• 3.2(4e)
• 3.2(5d)
• 3.2(5e)
• 3.2(5f)
• 3.2(6i)
• 3.2(7f)
• 3.2(7k)
• 3.2(8d)
• 3.2(9b)
• 3.2(9f)
• 3.2(9h)
• 3.2(10e)
• 3.2(10f)
• 3.2(10g)
• 3.2(41d)
• 4.0(1h)
• 4.0(2c)
• 4.0(3c)
• 4.0(3d)
• 4.1(1a)
• 4.1(1i)
• 4.1(1j)
• 4.1(1k)
• 4.1(1l)
• 4.1(2g)
• 4.1(2m)
• 4.1(2o)
• 4.1(2s)
• 4.1(2u)
• 4.1(2w)
• 4.1(2x)
• 4.2(1g)
• 4.2(1i)
• 4.2(1j)
• 4.2(1l)
• 4.2(2e)
• 4.2(2f)
• 4.2(2g)
• 4.2(3j)
• 4.2(3l)
• 4.2(3n)
• 4.2(3q)
• 4.2(4i)
• 4.2(4k)
• 4.2(4o)
• 4.2(4p)
• 4.2(5k)
• 4.2(5l)
• 4.2(5n)
• 4.2(6d)
• 4.2(6g)
• 4.2(6h)
• 4.2(6l)
• 4.2(6o)
• 4.2(7f)
• 4.2(7l)
• 4.2(7q)
• 4.2(7r)
• 4.2(7s)
• 4.2(7t)
• 4.2(7u)
• 4.2(7v)
• 4.2(7w)
• 5.0(1k)
• 5.0(1l)
• 5.0(2e)
• 5.0(2h)
• 5.1(1h)
• 5.1(2e)
• 5.1(3e)
• 5.1(4c)
• 5.2(1g)
• 5.2(2e)
• 5.2(2f)
• 5.2(2g)
• 5.2(2h)
• 5.2(3e)
• 5.2(3f)
• 5.2(3g)
• 5.2(4d)
• 5.2(4e)
• 5.2(4f)
• 5.2(4h)
• 5.2(5c)
• 5.2(5d)
• 5.2(5e)
• 5.2(6e)
• 5.2(6g)
• 5.2(6h)
• 5.2(7f)
• 5.2(7g)
• 5.2(8d)
• 5.2(8e)
• 5.2(8f)
• 5.2(8g)
• 5.2(8h)
• 5.2(8i)
• 5.3(1d)
• 5.3(2a)
• 5.3(2b)
• 5.3(2c)
• 5.3(2d)
• 5.3(2e)
• 6.0(1g)
• 6.0(1j)
• 6.0(2h)
• 6.0(2j)
• 6.0(3d)
• 6.0(3e)
• 6.0(3g)
• 6.0(4c)
• 6.0(5h)
• 6.0(5j)
• 6.0(6c)
• 6.0(7e)
• 6.0(8d)
• 6.1(1f)

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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