Cisco has released 20 security advisories that describe 26 vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software. Cisco IOS (internetwork operating system) is the operating system used on Networking devices. Cisco IOS XE is a modular version of that operating system, used on newer enterprise networking devices. Cisco has released software updates that address these vulnerabilities. One critical and two high severity vulnerabilities are highlighted below.
- CVE-2025-20188 has a CVSSv3 score of 10.0 and is within the out-of-band access point download feature. If successfully exploited, a remote unauthenticated attacker could upload arbitrary files to an affected system.
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