CVE-2020-3115: Cisco SD-WAN Solution Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-01-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of the Cisco SD-WAN Solution vManage software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root-level privileges on the underlying operating system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted file to the affected system. An exploit could allow the attacker to elevate privileges to root-level privileges.

Affected products

Cisco SD-WAN vManage: 18.4.1, 19.1.0

References

https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20200122-sdwan-priv-esc
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20200122-sdwan-priv-esc

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