Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager up to 20.15.1_LI_Images Application Data Endpoint path traversal

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Application Data Endpoint. This manipulation causes path traversal. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-20187. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component Application Data Endpoint. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. As an impact it is known to affect integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

It is possible to read the advisory at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-20187 since 10/10/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/04/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 235489 (Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Arbitrary File Creation (cisco-sa-sdwanarbfile-2zKhKZwJ)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (235489). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Network Management Software

Vendor

• Cisco

Name

• Catalyst SD-WAN Manager

Version

• 17.2.4
• 17.2.5
• 17.2.6
• 17.2.7
• 17.2.8
• 17.2.9
• 17.2.10
• 18.2.0
• 18.3.0
• 18.3.1
• 18.3.1.1
• 18.3.3
• 18.3.3.1
• 18.3.4
• 18.3.5
• 18.3.6
• 18.3.6.1
• 18.3.7
• 18.3.8
• 18.4.0
• 18.4.0.1
• 18.4.1
• 18.4.3
• 18.4.4
• 18.4.5
• 18.4.6
• 18.4.302
• 18.4.303
• 18.4.501_ES
• 19.0.0
• 19.0.1a
• 19.1.0
• 19.2.0
• 19.2.097
• 19.2.098
• 19.2.099
• 19.2.1
• 19.2.2
• 19.2.3
• 19.2.4
• 19.2.4.0.1
• 19.2.4.0.8
• 19.2.4.0.9
• 19.2.31
• 19.2.32
• 19.2.929
• 19.3.0
• 20.1.1
• 20.1.1.1
• 20.1.2
• 20.1.2_937
• 20.1.3
• 20.1.3.1
• 20.1.12
• 20.3.1
• 20.3.2
• 20.3.2.0.5
• 20.3.2.0.6
• 20.3.2.1
• 20.3.2.1_927
• 20.3.2.1_930
• 20.3.2_925
• 20.3.2_928
• 20.3.2_929
• 20.3.2_937
• 20.3.3
• 20.3.3.0.8
• 20.3.3.0.14
• 20.3.3.0.16
• 20.3.3.0.17
• 20.3.3.0.18
• 20.3.3.1
• 20.3.3.1.1
• 20.3.3.1.2
• 20.3.3.1.5
• 20.3.3.1.7
• 20.3.3.1.10
• 20.3.3.2
• 20.3.4
• 20.3.4.0.1
• 20.3.4.0.5
• 20.3.4.0.6
• 20.3.4.0.11
• 20.3.4.0.19
• 20.3.4.0.20
• 20.3.4.0.24
• 20.3.4.0.25
• 20.3.4.0.26
• 20.10.1
• 20.10.1.1
• 20.10.1.2
• 20.10.1_LI_Images
• 20.11.1
• 20.11.1.1
• 20.11.1.2
• 20.11.1_LI_Images
• 20.12.1
• 20.12.1_LI_Images
• 20.12.2
• 20.12.2_LI_Images
• 20.12.3
• 20.12.3.1
• 20.12.3_LI_Images
• 20.12.4
• 20.12.4.0.03
• 20.12.4.0.4
• 20.12.4.1
• 20.12.4.1_LI_Images
• 20.12.4_LI_Images
• 20.12.401
• 20.13.1
• 20.13.1_LI_Images
• 20.14.1
• 20.14.1_LI_Images
• 20.15.1
• 20.15.1_LI_Images

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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