Cisco Digital Network Architecture Center up to 2.3.7.9.75403.10-VA HTTP Request access control

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco Digital Network Architecture Center 2.3.7.5-VA/2.3.7.6-VA/2.3.7.7-VA/2.3.7.9-VA/2.3.7.9.75403.10-VA. It has been classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component HTTP Request Handler. Performing a manipulation results in access control. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2025-20341. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Cisco Digital Network Architecture Center 2.3.7.5-VA/2.3.7.6-VA/2.3.7.7-VA/2.3.7.9-VA/2.3.7.9.75403.10-VA. This affects an unknown code block of the component HTTP Request Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst Center Virtual Appliance could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to elevate privileges to Administrator on an affected system. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting a crafted HTTP request to an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to perform unauthorized modifications to the system, including creating new user accounts or elevating their own privileges on an affected system. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid credentials for a user account with at least the role of Observer.

It is possible to read the advisory at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-20341 since 10/10/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/14/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at EUVD (EUVD-2025-175338) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-2602). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Affected

• Cisco Catalyst

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• Cisco

Name

• Digital Network Architecture Center

Version

• 2.3.7.5-VA
• 2.3.7.6-VA
• 2.3.7.7-VA
• 2.3.7.9-VA
• 2.3.7.9.75403.10-VA

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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