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CVE-2022-20775: Cisco SD-WAN Path Traversal Vulnerability

criticalknown exploitedCVE-2022-20775
Actively exploited. At least one CVE in this advisory is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — exploitation has been observed in the wild. Treat remediation as urgent.
Cisco SD-WAN CLI contains a path traversal vulnerability that could allow an authenticated local attacker to gain elevated privileges via improper access controls on commands within the application CLI. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as the root user.

CSIRTS triage

vendor: Ciscoproduct: SD-WAN CLIPrivilege escalation
What
A path traversal vulnerability could allow an authenticated local attacker to gain elevated privileges.
Who is affected
Authenticated local users of Cisco SD-WAN CLI.
Urgency
Remediation is critical due to the potential for privilege escalation.
Action
Update to the latest version of Cisco SD-WAN CLI.

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Details

Source
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (US · database · site)
Severity
critical
Published
2026-02-25
Exploitation
Observed in the wild (CISA KEV)

Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-20775

Exploitation outlook

EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.

Referenced CVEs

CVECSIRTS overviewExternal
CVE-2022-20775coverage & exploitation statusNVD · CVE.org

Recent advisories for Cisco SD-WAN Path

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