Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Arbitrary File Creation Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the application data endpoints of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly Cisco SD-WAN vManage, could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to write arbitrary files to an affected system. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of requests to APIs. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious requests to an API within the affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to conduct directory traversal attacks and write files to an arbitrary location on the affected system. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-20187US | — | — | ||
A vulnerability in the application data endpoints of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly Cisco SD-WAN vManage, could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to write arbitrary… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- Security Vulnerability Policyexternal
- Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Certificate Validation Vulnerabilityexternal
- Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerabilityexternal
- Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilityexternal
- Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Arbitrary File Creation Vulnerabilityself
- Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Reflected HTML Injection Vulnerabilityexternal
- Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilityexternal
- Cisco Security Vulnerability Policyexternal
remediations (1)
- FixedCisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager
Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability.
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