CVE-2025-20187CWE-22

Cisco SD-WAN Manager Software Arbitrary File Creation Vulnerability

Medium · published May 7, 2025

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
70.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A vulnerability in the application data endpoints of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly Cisco SD-WAN vManage, could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to write arbitrary files to an affected system.

This 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 system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to conduct directory traversal attacks and write files to an arbitrary location on the affected 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
0.01288 · 70.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Published
2025-05-07T17:18Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 MAY 17:18Z
    Cisco SD-WAN Manager Software Arbitrary File Creation Vulnerability
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