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.

Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Affected Vendors & Products

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References
Link Providers
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-sdwanarbfile-2zKhKZwJ cve-icon cve-icon
History

Wed, 07 May 2025 20:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Wed, 07 May 2025 17:30:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Cisco SD-WAN Manager Software Arbitrary File Creation Vulnerability
Weaknesses CWE-22
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N'}
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published: 2025-05-07T17:18:31.993Z

Updated: 2025-05-07T19:47:02.038Z

Reserved: 2024-10-10T19:15:13.226Z

Link: CVE-2025-20187

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-05-07T18:56:33.960Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-05-07T18:15:38.463

Modified: 2025-05-08T14:39:09.683

Link: CVE-2025-20187

cve-icon Redhat

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