CVE-2022-20818: Cisco SD-WAN

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple vulnerabilities in the CLI of Cisco SD-WAN Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain elevated privileges. These vulnerabilities are due to improper access controls on commands within the application CLI. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by running a malicious command on the application CLI. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as the root user.

Affected products

• Cisco SD-WAN: before 20.9 (fixed in 20.9)
• Cisco SD-WAN Vbond Orchestrator: before 20.9 (fixed in 20.9)
• Cisco SD-WAN Vmanage: before 20.9 (fixed in 20.9)
• Cisco SD-WAN Vsmart Controller: before 20.9 (fixed in 20.9)

Published 2022-09-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.