CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-20163
8.7 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-06-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.7 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-322
Description
A vulnerability in the SSH implementation of Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to impersonate Cisco NDFC-managed devices.
This vulnerability is due to insufficient SSH host key validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by performing a machine-in-the-middle attack on SSH connections to Cisco NDFC-managed devices, which could allow an attacker to intercept this traffic. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to impersonate a managed device and capture user credentials.
Affected configurations
• cisco nexus dashboard (< 3.2\(2f\))
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-322 Key Exchange without Entity Authentication weakness