CVE-2023-20261 — A vulnerability in the web UI of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager could allow an au

A vulnerability in the web UI of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to retrieve arbitrary files from an affected system. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of parameters that are sent to the web UI. An attacker could exploit

01What is this vulnerability?

A vulnerability in the web UI of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to retrieve arbitrary files from an affected system. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of parameters that are sent to the web UI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager and issuing crafted requests using the web UI. A…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Cisco	Cisco SD	WAN vManage — 17.2.6, 17.2.7, 17.2.8, 17.2.9, 17.2.10, 17.2.4, 17.2.5, 18.3.1.1, 18.3.3.1, 18.3.3, 18.3.4, 18.3.5, 18.3.7, 18.3.8, 18.3.6.1, 18.3.1, 18.3.0, 18.4.0.1, 18.4.3, 18.4.302, 18.4.303, 18.4.4, 18.4.5, 18.4.0, 18.4.1, 18.4.6, 19.2.0, 19.2.097, 19.2.099, 19.2.1, 19.2.2, 19.2.3, 19.2.31, 19.2.929, 19.2.4, 20.1.1.1, 20.1.12, 20.1.1, 20.1.2, 20.1.3, 19.3.0, 19.1.0, 18.2.0, 20.3.1, 20.3.2, 20.3.2.1, 20.3.3, 20.3.3.1, 20.3.4, 20.3.4.1, 20.3.4.2, 20.3.5, 20.3.6, 20.3.7, 20.3.7.1, 20.3.4.3, 20.3.5.1, 20.3.7.2, 20.3.8, 20.4.1, 20.4.1.1, 20.4.1.2, 20.4.2, 20.4.2.2, 20.4.2.1, 20.4.2.3, 20.5.1, 20.5.1.2, 20.5.1.1, 20.6.1, 20.6.1.1, 20.6.2.1, 20.6.2.2, 20.6.2, 20.6.3, 20.6.3.1, 20.6.4, 20.6.5, 20.6.5.1, 20.6.1.2, 20.6.3.2, 20.6.4.1, 20.6.5.2, 20.6.5.4, 20.6.3.3, 20.6.4.2, 20.6.3.0.45, 20.6.3.0.46, 20.6.3.0.47, 20.6.3.4, 20.6.4.0.21, 20.6.5.1.10, 20.6.5.1.11, 20.6.5.1.7, 20.6.5.1.9, 20.6.5.2.4, 20.6.5.5, 20.6.5.2.8, 20.6.5.1.13

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-10-18T16:27:01.866Z
• Last modified: 2025-06-12T15:04:33.809Z

09References

• sec.cloudapps.cisco.com — https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/ci…