CVE-2025-20213

MEDIUM

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly Cisco SD-WAN vManage, could allow an authenticated, local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on the local file system of an affected device. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid read-only credentials with CLI access on the affected system. This vulnerability is due to improper access controls on files that are on the local file system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by running a series of crafted commands on the local file system of an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on the affected device and gain privileges of the root user. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to have CLI access as a low-privilege user.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 23.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-78
Status published
Products (50)
cisco/catalyst_sd-wan_manager 17.2.4
cisco/catalyst_sd-wan_manager 17.2.5
cisco/catalyst_sd-wan_manager 17.2.6
cisco/catalyst_sd-wan_manager 17.2.7
cisco/catalyst_sd-wan_manager 17.2.8
cisco/catalyst_sd-wan_manager 17.2.9
cisco/catalyst_sd-wan_manager 17.2.10
cisco/catalyst_sd-wan_manager 18.2.0
cisco/catalyst_sd-wan_manager 18.3.0
cisco/catalyst_sd-wan_manager 18.3.1
... and 40 more
Published May 07, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026