CVE-2021-1486

mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.012 · 69 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.22% (69th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

6 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · cisco_csaf

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

A vulnerability in Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to enumerate user accounts. This vulnerability is due to the improper handling of HTTP headers. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending authenticated requests to an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to compare the HTTP responses that are returned by the affected system to determine which accounts are valid user accounts.

remediations

Vendor fix, mitigation, or workaround guidance, as published by each source.

A vendor fix is available.

FixedCisco Catalyst SD-WAN Managercisco_csaf
Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability.
https://software.cisco.com

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 1.4

v3.15.3mediumAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nsecondary · psirt@cisco.com USexploitability 3.9 · impact 1.4

v3.14.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nsecondary · Cisco PSIRT US

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: partialcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-200USCWE-203US

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Cisco Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Managerall versionscisco_csafUS
Cisco Cisco SD-WAN vManage≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
Cisco Systems Inc. Cisco SD-WAN≤ 20.3.3fstec_bduRU
Cisco Systems Inc. Cisco SD-WAN≤ 20.4.1fstec_bduRU
cisco catalyst sd-wan manager20.4 → 20.4.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:cisco:catalyst_sd-wan_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cisco sd-wan vmanage< 20.3.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:cisco:sd-wan_vmanage:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

cisco-sa-vmanage-enumeration-64eNnDKyCisco SD-WAN vManage HTTP Authentication User Enumeration Vulnerability2021-05-05csaf · cisco_csafUS
A vulnerability in Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to enumerate user accounts. This vulnerability is due to the improper handling of HTTP headers. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending authenticated requests to an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to compare the HTTP responses that are returned by the affected system to determine which accounts are valid user accounts. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu cisco_csaf nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-05-06modified 2026-06-17

references (5)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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