CVE-2023-20261
A vulnerability in the web UI of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to retrieve arbitrary files…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- cisco
Description
A vulnerability in the web UI of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to retrieve arbitrary files from an affected system. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of parameters that are sent to the web UI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager and issuing crafted requests using the web UI. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to obtain arbitrary files from the underlying Linux file system of an affected system. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must be an authenticated user.
Timeline
ID reserved
By cisco
- 12 months later
· 12 months later
Published
- 20 months later
· 20 months later
Record updated
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 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.71% · top 46% 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 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 17.2.6
- affected 17.2.7
- affected 17.2.8
- affected 17.2.9
- affected 17.2.10
- affected 17.2.4
- affected 17.2.5
- affected 18.3.1.1
- affected 18.3.3.1
- affected 18.3.3
- affected 18.3.4
- affected 18.3.5
- affected 18.3.7
- affected 18.3.8
- affected 18.3.6.1
- affected 18.3.1
- affected 18.3.0
- affected 18.4.0.1
- affected 18.4.3
- affected 18.4.302
- affected 18.4.303
- affected 18.4.4
- affected 18.4.5
- affected 18.4.0
- affected 18.4.1
- affected 18.4.6
- affected 19.2.0
- affected 19.2.097
- affected 19.2.099
- affected 19.2.1
- affected 19.2.2
- affected 19.2.3
- affected 19.2.31
- affected 19.2.929
- affected 19.2.4
- affected 20.1.1.1
- affected 20.1.12
- affected 20.1.1
- affected 20.1.2
- affected 20.1.3
- and 59 more
What to do
Exploitation: The Cisco PSIRT is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerability that is described in this advisory.
References (1)
- cisco-sa-sdwan-lfi-OWLbKUGe (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
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-2023-20261)Record last updated .