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CVE-2025-20190

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-20190 describes an insufficient access control vulnerability in the lobby ambassador web interface of Cisco IOS XE Wireless Controller Software. An authenticated attacker with lobby ambassador credentials can send crafted HTTP requests to the API, allowing them to delete arbitrary user accounts, including administrative ones. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium) due to its network attack vector and high impact on integrity, though it requires prior authentication and the lobby ambassador account is not enabled by default. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
17.6.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:17.6.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
17.9.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:17.9.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
17.9.6aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:17.9.6a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
17.12.1z2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:17.12.1z2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
17.12.1z3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:17.12.1z3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
28.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0036 is in the 38th percentile among its peer group of 21,974 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ewlc-user-del-hQxMpUDj
Vendor Advisory