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CVE-2022-20775

Cisco SD-WAN Path Traversal Vulnerability

Exploited in the wild

This vulnerability is on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list, added 2026-02-25. Federal due date: 2026-02-27.

Please adhere to CISA’s guidelines to assess exposure and mitigate risks associated with Cisco SD-WAN devices as outlines in CISA’s Emergency Directive 26-03 (URL listed below in Notes) and CISA’s “Hunt & Hardening Guidance for Cisco SD-WAN Devices (URL listed below in Notes). Adhere to the applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are not available.

Impact

Cisco SD-WAN CLI contains a path traversal vulnerability that could allow an authenticated local attacker to gain elevated privileges via improper access controls on commands within the application CLI. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as the root user.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
CiscoCatalyst Sd-Wan Manager
before 20.6.3
from 20.7 before 20.7.2
Version 20.8
CiscoSd-Wan Vbond Orchestrator
before 20.6.3
from 20.7 before 20.7.2
Version 20.8
CiscoSd-Wan Vedge Cloud
before 20.6.3
from 20.7 before 20.7.2
Version 20.8
CiscoSd-Wan Vsmart Controller
before 20.6.3
from 20.7 before 20.7.2
Version 20.8
CiscoSd-Wan
before 20.6.3
from 20.7 before 20.7.2
Version 20.8

Weakness classification

CWE-25CWE-282CWE-22

References