What is CVE-2022-20725?

CVE-2022-20725 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco 800m Integrated Services Router, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2022-04-15.

How severe is CVE-2022-20725?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

XSS in Cisco 800m Integrated Services Router

CVE-2022-20725

Multiple vulnerabilities in the Cisco IOx application hosting environment on multiple Cisco platforms could allow an attacker to inject arbitrary commands into the underlying host operating system, execute arbitrary code on the underlying host operating system, install applications without being authenticated, or conduct a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against a user of the affected software. For more information about these vulnerabilities, see the Details section of this advisory.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2022-04-15 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (50.7th percentile), scored 2026-11-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 51st percentile — 50.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-iox-yuXQ… (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
github.com/orangecertcc/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-q2v9-qpmg-4q… (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-20725?: CVE-2022-20725 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco 800m Integrated Services Router, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2022-04-15.
How severe is CVE-2022-20725?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.