CVE-2022-20775
Actively exploited. CVE-2022-20775 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-02-25) — exploitation has been observed in the wild, and US federal agencies are required to remediate it under BOD 22-01. Treat patching 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
- 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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Exploitation outlook
- Exploitation confirmedAlready exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 96% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Advisory coverage (1)
- criticalexploitedCVE-2022-20775: Cisco SD-WAN Path Traversal Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2026-02-25
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