Cisco SD-WAN Path Traversal
What to do
Please adhere to CISA’s guidelines to assess exposure and mitigate risks associated with Cisco SD-WAN devices as outlines in CISA’s Emergency Directive 26-03 (URL listed below in Notes) and CISA’s “Hunt & Hardening Guidance for Cisco SD-WAN Devices (URL listed below in Notes). Adhere to the applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are not available.
CISA deadline 2026-02-27 · passed 6 months ago · applies to US federal civilian agencies; used elsewhere as a reference SLA
What happened
Cisco SD-WAN CLI contains a path traversal vulnerability that could allow an authenticated local attacker to gain elevated privileges via improper access controls on commands within the application CLI. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as the root user.
Who is affected
Cisco SD-WAN. Affected version ranges are listed in the vendor advisory and the NVD entry linked under Sources.
Weakness class: CWE-25, CWE-282.
Timeline
- Added to CISA KEVExploitation in the wild confirmed by CISA
- CISA remediation deadlinepassed 6 months ago
Sources
- NVD entry for CVE-2022-20775 nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-20775
- CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
- cisa.gov www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/ed-26-03-mitigate-vulnerabilities-cisco-sd-wan-systems
- cisa.gov www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/supplemental-direction-ed-26-03-hunt-and-hardening-guidance-cisco-sd-wan-systems
- cisco.com www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/csa/cisco-sa-sd-wan-priv-E6e8tEdF.html
- nvd.nist.gov nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-20775