CVE-2025-20352

HIGH KEV

Cisco IOS XE - Authenticated Stack-based Buffer Overflow via SNMP Packet

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

CVE-2025-20352 is actively exploited and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added September 29, 2025. EIP tracks 1 public exploit from researchers including scadastrangelove.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This repository provides a scanner and parser for identifying Cisco IOS/IOS XE devices potentially vulnerable to CVE-2025-20352 via SNMP exposure checks. It uses onesixtyone for scanning and a Python script to parse sysDescr banners to flag fixed or potentially vulnerable versions.

Description

A vulnerability in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) subsystem of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow the following: An authenticated, remote attacker with low privileges could cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device that is running Cisco IOS Software or Cisco IOS XE Software. To cause the DoS, the attacker must have the SNMPv2c or earlier read-only community string or valid SNMPv3 user credentials. An authenticated, remote attacker with high privileges could execute code as the root user on an affected device that is running Cisco IOS XE Software. To execute code as the root user, the attacker must have the SNMPv1 or v2c read-only community string or valid SNMPv3 user credentials and administrative or privilege 15 credentials on the affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted SNMP packet to an affected device over IPv4 or IPv6 networks. This vulnerability is due to a stack overflow condition in the SNMP subsystem of the affected software. A successful exploit could allow a low-privileged attacker to cause the affected system to reload, resulting in a DoS condition, or allow a high-privileged attacker to execute arbitrary code as the root user and obtain full control of the affected system. Note: This vulnerability affects all versions of SNMP.

Exploits (1)

nomisec SCANNER 6 stars
by scadastrangelove · poc
https://github.com/scadastrangelove/CVE-2025-20352

This repository provides a scanner and parser for identifying Cisco IOS/IOS XE devices potentially vulnerable to CVE-2025-20352 via SNMP exposure checks. It uses onesixtyone for scanning and a Python script to parse sysDescr banners to flag fixed or potentially vulnerable versions.

Classification
Scanner 100%
Attack Type
Info Leak
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Cisco IOS/IOS XE
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Network access to target devices · SNMP enabled on target devices with default communities
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

Scores

CVSS v3 7.7
EPSS 0.0324
EPSS Percentile 87.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation active
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CISA KEV 2025-09-29
VulnCheck KEV 2025-09-24
ENISA EUVD EUVD-2025-31023
CWE
CWE-121
Status published
Products (50)
cisco/ios 12.2\(33\)sxi
cisco/ios 12.2\(33\)sxi1
cisco/ios 12.2\(33\)sxi2
cisco/ios 12.2\(33\)sxi2a
cisco/ios 12.2\(33\)sxi3
cisco/ios 12.2\(33\)sxi4
cisco/ios 12.2\(33\)sxi4a
cisco/ios 12.2\(33\)sxi5
cisco/ios 12.2\(33\)sxi6
cisco/ios 12.2\(33\)sxi7
... and 40 more
Published Sep 24, 2025
KEV Added Sep 29, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026