vulnerability

Cisco ISE: CVE-2022-20937: Cisco Identity Services Engine Software Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 2, 2022
Added
Oct 21, 2025
Modified
Oct 21, 2025

Description

A vulnerability in a feature that monitors RADIUS requests on Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to negatively affect the performance of an affected device.

This vulnerability is due to insufficient management of system resources. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by taking actions that cause Cisco ISE Software to receive specific RADIUS traffic. A successful and sustained exploit of this vulnerability could allow the attacker to cause reduced performance of the affected device, resulting in significant delays to RADIUS authentications.

There are workarounds that address this vulnerability.

Solution

cisco-ise-upgrade-latest
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