Cisco Digital Network Architecture Center up to 2.3.7.9.75403.10-VA RBAC privileges management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Cisco Digital Network Architecture Center. This affects an unknown function of the component RBAC. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-20346. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Digital Network Architecture Center and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component RBAC. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst Center could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute operations that should require Administrator privileges. The attacker would need valid read-only user credentials. This vulnerability is due to improper role-based access control (RBAC). An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to an affected system and modifying certain policy configurations. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to modify policy configurations that are reserved for the Administrator role. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid credentials for a user account with at least the role of Observer.

The advisory is shared for download at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-20346 since 10/10/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 11/14/2025). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at EUVD (EUVD-2025-175337) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-2601). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

Affected

• Cisco Catalyst

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Vendor

• Cisco

Name

• Digital Network Architecture Center

Version

• 1.0.0.0
• 1.16.54
• 2.1.1.0
• 2.1.1.3
• 2.1.2.0
• 2.1.2.3
• 2.1.2.5
• 2.1.2.6
• 2.1.2.7
• 2.2.1.0
• 2.2.1.3
• 2.2.2.0
• 2.2.2.3
• 2.2.2.4
• 2.2.2.5
• 2.2.2.6
• 2.2.2.7
• 2.2.2.8
• 2.2.2.9
• 2.2.3.0
• 2.2.3.3
• 2.2.3.4
• 2.2.3.5
• 2.3.2.1
• 2.3.2.1-AIRGAP
• 2.3.2.1-AIRGAP-CA
• 2.3.2.3
• 2.3.3.0-AIRGAP
• 2.3.3.1
• 2.3.3.1-AIRGAP
• 2.3.3.3
• 2.3.3.3-AIRGAP
• 2.3.3.4
• 2.3.3.4-AIRGAP
• 2.3.3.4-AIRGAP-MDNAC
• 2.3.3.5
• 2.3.3.5-AIRGAP
• 2.3.3.6
• 2.3.3.6-70045-HF1
• 2.3.3.6-AIRGAP
• 2.3.3.6-AIRGAP-MDNAC
• 2.3.3.7
• 2.3.3.7-72323
• 2.3.3.7-72328-AIRGAP
• 2.3.3.7-72328-MDNAC
• 2.3.3.7-AIRGAP
• 2.3.3.7-AIRGAP-MDNAC
• 2.3.4.0-AIRGAP
• 2.3.4.3
• 2.3.4.3-AIRGAP
• 2.3.5.0-AIRGAP-MDNAC
• 2.3.5.3
• 2.3.5.3-AIRGAP
• 2.3.5.3-AIRGAP-MDNAC
• 2.3.5.3-EULA
• 2.3.5.4-AIRGAP
• 2.3.5.4-AIRGAP-MDNAC
• 2.3.5.5
• 2.3.5.5-70026-HF51
• 2.3.5.5-70026-HF53
• 2.3.5.5-70026-HF70
• 2.3.5.5-70026-HF71
• 2.3.5.5-AIRGAP
• 2.3.5.5-AIRGAP-MDNAC
• 2.3.5.6-70143-HF20
• 2.3.5.6-AIRGAP
• 2.3.5.6-AIRGAP-MDNAC
• 2.3.6.0
• 2.3.6.0-AIRGAP
• 2.3.7.0
• 2.3.7.0-AIRGAP
• 2.3.7.0-AIRGAP-MDNAC
• 2.3.7.0-VA
• 2.3.7.3
• 2.3.7.3-AIRGAP
• 2.3.7.3-AIRGAP-MDNAC
• 2.3.7.4
• 2.3.7.4-AIRGAP
• 2.3.7.5-AIRGAP
• 2.3.7.6
• 2.3.7.6-AIRGAP
• 2.3.7.6-AIRGAP-MDNAC
• 2.3.7.6-VA
• 2.3.7.7
• 2.3.7.7-AIRGAP
• 2.3.7.7-AIRGAP-MDNAC
• 2.3.7.7-VA
• 2.3.7.9
• 2.3.7.9-70301-GSMU10
• 2.3.7.9-70301-SMU1
• 2.3.7.9-75403-GSMU10
• 2.3.7.9-75403-SMU10
• 2.3.7.9-AIRGAP
• 2.3.7.9-AIRGAP-MDNAC
• 2.3.7.9-VA
• 2.3.7.9.75403.10-VA

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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