CVE-2021-1464
Cisco SD-WAN vManage Authorization Bypass Vulnerability
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- cisco
Description
A vulnerability in Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to bypass authorization checking and gain restricted access to the configuration information of an affected system. This vulnerability exists because the affected software has insufficient input validation for certain commands. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted requests to the affected commands of an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass authorization checking and gain restricted access to the configuration data of the affected system.Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.
Timeline
ID reserved
By cisco
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ciscoCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N/RL:X/RC:X/E:X |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium5.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 29% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
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 2 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 (9)
- cisco-sa-vman-authorization-b-GUEpSLK (opens in a new tab)
- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-vmanage-info-disclos-gGvm9Mfu (opens in a new tab)
- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-vman-cmdinj-nRHKgfHX (opens in a new tab)
- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-vman-xml-ext-entity-q6Z7uVUg (opens in a new tab)
- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-vman-auth-bypass-Z3Zze5XC (opens in a new tab)
- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-vmanage-cql-inject-c7z9QqyB (opens in a new tab)
- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-sdw-sqlinj-HDJUeEAX (opens in a new tab)
- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-sdwan-vdaemon-bo-RuzzEA2 (opens in a new tab)
- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-vman-dir-trav-Bpwc5gtm (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)
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