Cisco Identity Services Engine Software up to 3.4.0 Web-based Management Interface cross site scripting

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A vulnerability has been found in Cisco Identity Services Engine Software and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Web-based Management Interface. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-20267. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco Identity Services Engine Software and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Web-based Management Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks against a user of the interface. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input by the web-based management interface of an affected system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by injecting malicious code into specific pages of the interface. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary script code in the context of the affected interface or access sensitive, browser-based information. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid administrative credentials.

The advisory is shared at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-20267 since 10/10/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 237025 (Cisco Identity Services Engine (cisco-sa-ise-stored-xss-Yff54m73)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (237025) and EUVD (EUVD-2025-16017). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Type

• Policy Management Software

Vendor

• Cisco

Name

• Identity Services Engine Software

Version

• 3.0.0
• 3.0.0 p1
• 3.0.0 p2
• 3.0.0 p3
• 3.0.0 p4
• 3.0.0 p5
• 3.0.0 p6
• 3.0.0 p7
• 3.0.0 p8
• 3.1.0
• 3.1.0 p1
• 3.1.0 p2
• 3.1.0 p3
• 3.1.0 p4
• 3.1.0 p5
• 3.1.0 p6
• 3.1.0 p7
• 3.1.0 p8
• 3.1.0 p9
• 3.1.0 p10
• 3.2.0
• 3.2.0 p1
• 3.2.0 p2
• 3.2.0 p3
• 3.2.0 p4
• 3.2.0 p5
• 3.2.0 p6
• 3.2.0 p7
• 3.3.0
• 3.4.0

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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