Authenticated SNMP ACL bypass via truncated configuration
Published May 7, 2025 · Updated May 7, 2025
Access-control bypass in Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN 16.9.1 through 16.12.5 allows remote authenticated users to perform SNMP operations. Saving an SNMPv3 user expands authentication and privacy secrets into colon-delimited octets; lines over 255 characters are truncated on reload, cutting the ACL name so no ACL is applied. Valid SNMPv3 credentials, an overlength saved configuration, and a device reload are required; the attacker cannot change the configuration but can issue operations from a source the ACL should deny.
Summary
What happened
Access-control bypass in Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN 16.9.1 through 16.12.5 allows remote authenticated users to perform SNMP operations. Saving an SNMPv3 user expands authentication and privacy secrets into colon-delimited octets; lines over 255 characters are truncated on reload, cutting the ACL name so no ACL is applied. Valid SNMPv3 credentials, an overlength saved configuration, and a device reload are required; the attacker cannot change the configuration but can issue operations from a source the ACL should deny.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-20151
- Published
- May 7, 2025
- Updated
- May 7, 2025
- Vendor
- ClamAV
- Product
- Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN
- Classifications
- CWE-16
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 7, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 7, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=16.10.1
- Affected versionversion=16.10.2
- Affected versionversion=16.10.3
- Affected versionversion=16.10.3a
- Affected versionversion=16.10.3b
- Affected versionversion=16.10.4
- Affected versionversion=16.10.5
- Affected versionversion=16.10.6
- Affected versionversion=16.11.1
- Affected versionversion=16.11.1a
- Affected versionversion=16.11.1b
- Affected versionversion=16.11.1d
- Affected versionversion=16.11.1f
- Affected versionversion=16.11.1s
- Affected versionversion=16.12.1
- Affected versionversion=16.12.1a
- Affected versionversion=16.12.1b
- Affected versionversion=16.12.1b1
- Affected versionversion=16.12.1c
- Affected versionversion=16.12.1d
- Affected versionversion=16.12.1e
- Affected versionversion=16.12.2r
- Affected versionversion=16.12.3
- Affected versionversion=16.12.4
- Affected versionversion=16.12.4a
- Affected versionversion=16.12.5
- Affected versionversion=16.9.1
- Affected versionversion=16.9.2
- Affected versionversion=16.9.3
- Affected versionversion=16.9.4
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