CVE-2025-20213: Cisco Catalyst SDWAN Manager Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability
This Cisco advisory covers CVE-2025-20213 in Catalyst SD-WAN Manager.
- CVE-2025-20213
Key facts
- Vendor rating
- Medium, CVSS 5.5
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N· base score 5.5, scored by ciscoAttack vector: local. Attack complexity: low. Privileges required: low. User interaction: none. Scope: unchanged. Confidentiality impact: none. Integrity impact: high. Availability impact: none.- Weakness
- CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none observed. Automatable: no. Technical impact: total. CISA, .
- CISA KEV
- Not listed (catalogue checked )
- Affected
- Scope: At the time of publication, this vulnerability affected Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager.; 20.8 and earlier — Migrate to a fixed release; 20.92 — Migrate to a fixed release and 7 more below
- Fixed in
- 20.16.1
- Source published
- Source revised
- Listed by VulniPulse
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Affected products & platforms
Description
A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly Cisco SD-WAN vManage, could allow an authenticated, local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on the local file system of an affected device. The flaw is caused by improper access controls on files that are on the local file system.
Text from the source record.
- Scope: At the time of publication, this vulnerability affected Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager.
- 20.8 and earlier — Migrate to a fixed release
- 20.92 — Migrate to a fixed release
- 20.101 — Migrate to a fixed release
- 20.111 — Migrate to a fixed release
- 20.12 — 20.12.5 / Migrate to a fixed release
- 20.131 — Migrate to a fixed release
- 20.142 — Migrate to a fixed release
- 20.15 — Migrate to a fixed release
- Release 20.16 (first fixed: 20.16.1)
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How to fix CVE-2025-20213
Upgrade to a fixed release named by Cisco:
- 20.16.1
Vendor guidance
- Upgrade to the first fixed release for your train per the Fixed Releases table in this advisory.
- Release 20.8 and earlier: migrate to a fixed release.
- Release 20.92: migrate to a fixed release.
- Release 20.101: migrate to a fixed release.
- Release 20.111: migrate to a fixed release.
- Release 20.12: 20.12.5 / Migrate to a fixed release.
- Release 20.131: migrate to a fixed release.
- Release 20.142: migrate to a fixed release.
- Release 20.15: migrate to a fixed release.
Workaround status
- There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.
End-of-life dates for Cisco SD-WAN
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