Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller up to 6.1(1f) race condition

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller and classified as problematic. The affected element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to race condition. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-20119. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-362. The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. Impacted is integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

The advisory is shared for download at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-20119 since 10/10/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack needs to be approached locally. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

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). Once again VulDB remains the best source 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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