CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-20206

7.8 HIGH Published 2025-03-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-03-05
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-347

Description

A vulnerability in the interprocess communication (IPC) channel of Cisco Secure Client for Windows could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform a DLL hijacking attack on an affected device if the Secure Firewall Posture Engine, formerly HostScan, is installed on Cisco Secure Client. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of resources that are loaded by the application at run time. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted IPC message to a specific Cisco Secure Client process. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected machine with SYSTEM privileges. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid user credentials on the Windows system.

Affected configurations

• cisco secure client (< 5.1.8.105)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature weakness

References