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Critical Cisco ISE RCE Vulnerability - 20250627001

Overview

Multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Cisco ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to issue commands on the underlying operating system as the root user.

What is vulnerable?

Product(s) Affected Version(s) CVE CVSS Severity
Cisco ISE and ISE-PIC 3.3 and later
3.4
CVE-2025-20281
CVE-2025-20282
9.8
10
Critical
Critical

What has been observed?

The WA SOC has not received any reports of exploitation of this vulnerability on Western Australian Government networks at the time of writing.

Recommendation

The WA SOC recommends administrators apply the solutions as per vendor instructions to all affected devices within expected timeframes (refer Patch Management):