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CVE-2025-20187: Cisco SD-WAN Manager Software Arbitrary File Creation Vulnerability
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2025-05-07 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-22
Description
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.
Affected products
- Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager: 17.2.4, 17.2.5, 17.2.6, 17.2.7, 17.2.8, 17.2.9 (+100)
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