CVE-2026-20245KEV · OVERDUECWE-116

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller Authenticated Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

High · published June 4, 2026

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Confirmed exploited, and the score agrees

CVSS calls it high at 7.8. It is confirmed in active exploitation. It sits in the 97.9th percentile for exploit probability.

123
days past CISA
deadline
CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
25%
Percentile
97.9
In the wild
Confirmed
What it is

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller, formerly SD-WAN vSmart, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly SD-WAN vManage, and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Validator, formerly SD-WAN vBond, could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root by supplying a crafted file to the affected system.

This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by uploading a crafted file to the affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to perform command injection attacks on an affected system and elevate their privileges as the root user.

To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have netadmin privileges on the affected system. This would require valid credentials or exploitation of or . Cisco is not aware of successful exploitation by other methods. Cisco has observed limited cases where the exploitation of this bug resulted in a configuration change pushed to edge devices.

Cisco recommends that customers upgrade to the fixed software that is documented in the that was published on May 14, 2026, and verify the configuration of the edge devices.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.25323 · 97.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-116 · Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
Published
2026-06-04T22:33Z
KEV added
2026-06-09 · due 2026-06-23
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 JUN 00:00Z
    Added to CISA KEV — remediate by Jun 23
    kev
  • 04 JUN 22:33Z
    Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller Authenticated Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
    cvelistv5