CVE-2020-26073
Cisco SD-WAN vManage Directory Traversal Vulnerability
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- cisco
Description
A vulnerability in the application data endpoints of Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of directory traversal character sequences within requests to application programmatic interfaces (APIs). An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious requests to an API within the affected application. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to conduct directory traversal attacks and gain access to sensitive information including credentials or user tokens.Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ciscoCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/RL:X/RC:X/E:X |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 12.6% · top 3.7% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
Cisco · Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager
- affected 20.1.12
- affected 19.2.1
- affected 18.4.4
- affected 18.4.5
- affected 20.1.1.1
- affected 20.1.1
- affected 19.3.0
- affected 19.2.2
- affected 19.2.099
- affected 18.3.6
- affected 18.3.7
- affected 19.2.0
- affected 18.3.8
- affected 19.0.0
- affected 19.1.0
- affected 18.4.302
- affected 18.4.303
- affected 19.2.097
- affected 19.2.098
- affected 17.2.10
- affected 18.3.6.1
- affected 19.0.1a
- affected 18.2.0
- affected 18.4.3
- affected 18.4.1
- affected 17.2.8
- affected 18.3.3.1
- affected 18.4.0
- affected 18.3.1
- affected 17.2.6
- affected 17.2.9
- affected 18.3.4
- affected 17.2.5
- affected 18.3.1.1
- affected 18.3.5
- affected 18.4.0.1
- affected 18.3.3
- affected 17.2.7
- affected 17.2.4
- affected 18.3.0
- and 6 more
What to do
Exploitation: The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerability that is described in this advisory.
References (3)
- cisco-sa-vman-traversal-hQh24tmk (opens in a new tab)
- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asa-ssl-dos-7uZWwSEy (opens in a new tab)
- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-vmanage-escalation-Jhqs5Skf (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Badge for a README or a ticket
[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2020-26073)Record last updated .