Cisco addresses two critical severity vulnerabilities impacting Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Cisco ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC). Tracked as CVE-2025-20281 & CVE-2025-20282, both vulnerabilities have a CVSS score of 10. Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to issue commands on the underlying operating system as the root user.