Cisco Security Updates – 27 February 2025

Cisco has released security updates to fix several vulnerabilities affecting multiple Cisco products.

The addressed vulnerabilities could allow the attacker to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, obtain sensitive information, perform denial of services attacks, bypass security restrictions, or execute arbitrary commands and gain access to the affected systems.

Sample of the addressed vulnerabilities:

1. Cisco Nexus 3000 and 9000 Series Switches Health Monitoring Diagnostics Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2025-20111):

  • CVSS: 7.4
  • Attack Vector: Adjacent Network
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: None
  • Consequences: Denial Of Service

2. Cisco BroadWorks Application Delivery Platform Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CVE-2025-20211):

  • CVSS: 6.1
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: Required
  • Consequences: Cross-Site Scripting

Sample of the affected products:

  • Nexus 3100 Series Switches.
  • Nexus 9400 Series Switches in standalone NX-OS mode.
  • Cisco BroadWorks Application Delivery Platform.
  • Cisco APIC.
  • Cisco Secure Email Gateway.
Vulnerabilities
  • CVE-2025-20111
  • CVE-2025-20161
  • CVE-2025-20116
  • CVE-2025-20117
  • CVE-2025-20118
  • CVE-2025-20119
  • CVE-2025-20158
  • CVE-2025-20153
  • CVE-2025-20211
Mitigations

The enterprise should deploy this patch as soon as the testing phase is completed.

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