CVE-2020-27128CWE-22

Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software Arbitrary File Creation Vulnerability

Medium · published November 6, 2020

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High probability of exploitation

CVSS calls it medium at 6.5. It sits in the 99.2th percentile for exploit probability.

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
61%
Percentile
99.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A vulnerability in the application data endpoints of Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to write arbitrary files to an affected system. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of requests to APIs. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious requests to an API within the affected application. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to conduct directory traversal attacks and write files to an arbitrary location on the targeted system.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.60785 · 99.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Published
2020-11-06T18:15Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 NOV 18:15Z
    Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software Arbitrary File Creation Vulnerability
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