CVE-2025-23170

MEDIUM
STIX 2.1 vulnerability

Record summary

CVE-2025-23170 has a selected CVSS score of 6.7 (medium).

Description

The Versa Director SD-WAN orchestration platform includes functionality to initiate SSH sessions to remote CPEs and the Director shell via Shell-In-A-Box. The underlying Python script, shell-connect.py, is vulnerable to command injection through the user argument. This allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system. Exploitation Status: Versa Networks is not aware of any reported instance where this vulnerability was exploited. Proof of concept for this vulnerability has been disclosed by third party security researchers. Workarounds or Mitigation: There are no workarounds to disable the GUI option. Versa recommends that Director be upgraded to one of the remediated software versions.

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

CISA SSVC decision

ExploitationNone
AutomatableNo
Technical impactTotal

CISA Coordinator · SSVC 2.0.3 · Evaluated Jun 23, 2025 · Source: CVE List

Affected products and versions

1
ProductSourceVersion range

Director

Browse Versa / Director

Default status: unaffected

CVE List21.2.2 to ≤ 21.2.2affected
21.2.3 to ≤ 21.2.3affected
22.1.1 to ≤ 22.1.1affected
22.1.2 to ≤ 22.1.2affected
22.1.3 to ≤ 22.1.3affected
22.1.4 to ≤ 22.1.4affected

References

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