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Description

A vulnerability in the SSH implementation of Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to impersonate Cisco NDFC-managed devices. This vulnerability is due to insufficient SSH host key validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by performing a machine-in-the-middle attack on SSH connections to Cisco NDFC-managed devices, which could allow an attacker to intercept this traffic. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to impersonate a managed device and capture user credentials.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2024-10-10 | Published 2025-06-04 | Updated 2026-02-26 | Assigner cisco




HIGH: 8.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Problem types

Key Exchange without Entity Authentication

Product status

Default status
unknown

11.2(1)
affected

7.0(2)
affected

10.3(2)IPFM
affected

10.1(1)
affected

7.2(3)
affected

7.2(2)
affected

7.2(1)
affected

11.0(1)
affected

10.4(1)
affected

10.2(1)
affected

7.2(2a)
affected

10.1(2)
affected

7.1(1)
affected

12.1(1)
affected

11.1(1)
affected

10.3(1)
affected

10.3(1)R(1)
affected

7.0(1)
affected

10.0(1)
affected

7.1(2)
affected

11.4(1)
affected

10.4(2)
affected

11.3(1)
affected

11.5(1)
affected

11.5(2)
affected

11.5(3)
affected

12.0.1a
affected

11.5(3a)
affected

12.0.2d
affected

12.0.2f
affected

11.5(4)
affected

12.1.1
affected

12.1.1e
affected

12.1.1p
affected

12.1.2e
affected

12.1.2p
affected

12.1.3b
affected

12.2.1
affected

12.2.2
affected

Default status
unknown

3.1(1k)
affected

3.1(1l)
affected

3.2(1e)
affected

3.2(1i)
affected

3.3(1a)
affected

3.3(1b)
affected

3.3(2b)
affected

4.0(1i)
affected

3.3(2g)
affected

References

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/...isory/cisco-sa-ndfc-shkv-snQJtjrp (cisco-sa-ndfc-shkv-snQJtjrp)

cve.org (CVE-2025-20163)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-20163)

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