{"id":238458,"date":"2026-06-06T02:17:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/cisco-catalyst-sd-wan-manager-cve-2026-20245-flaw-actively-exploited-no-patch-available"},"modified":"2026-06-06T02:17:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:17:40","slug":"cisco-catalyst-sd-wan-manager-cve-2026-20245-flaw-actively-exploited-no-patch-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/cisco-catalyst-sd-wan-manager-cve-2026-20245-flaw-actively-exploited-no-patch-available","title":{"rendered":"Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager CVE-2026\u201320245 Flaw Actively Exploited \u2014 No Patch Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cisco-catalyst-sd-wan-manager-cve-2026-20245-flaw-actively-exploited-no-patch-available2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly SD-WAN vManage, could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root by supplying a crafted file to the affected system,\u201d Cisco <a href=\"https:\/\/sec.cloudapps.cisco.com\/security\/center\/content\/CiscoSecurityAdvisory\/cisco-sa-sdwan-privesc-4uxFrdzx\">said<\/a> in an advisory.<\/p>\n<p>The network security company said the vulnerability is the result of insufficient validation of user-supplied input, which an attacker could exploit by uploading a crafted file to the affected system. This, in turn, could permit the attacker to perform command injection attacks and elevate their privileges as the root user.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have netadmin privileges on the affected system,\u201d Cisco added. \u201cThis would require valid credentials or exploitation of <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/cisco-catalyst-sd-wan-controller-auth.html\">CVE-2026\u201320182<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/cisco-sd-wan-zero-day-cve-2026-20127.html\">CVE-2026\u201320127<\/a>. Cisco is not aware of successful exploitation by other methods.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly SD-WAN vManage, could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root by supplying a crafted file to the affected system,\u201d Cisco said in an advisory. The network security company said the vulnerability is the result of insufficient validation of user-supplied input, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}