Versa Director up to 22.1.4 Webhook Feature improper authorization

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Versa Director up to 22.1.4. This affects an unknown part of the component Webhook Feature. The manipulation results in improper authorization. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-23172. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Versa Director up to 22.1.4. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown part of the component Webhook Feature. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authorization vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-285. The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Versa Director SD-WAN orchestration platform includes a Webhook feature for sending notifications to external HTTP endpoints. However, the "Add Webhook" and "Test Webhook" functionalities can be abused by an authenticated user to send crafted HTTP requests to localhost. This can be leveraged to execute commands on behalf of the versa user, who has sudo privileges, potentially leading to privilege escalation or remote code execution. Exploitation Status: Versa Networks is not aware of any reported instance where this vulnerability was exploited. Proof of concept for this vulnerability has been disclosed by third party security researchers. Workarounds or Mitigation: There are no workarounds to disable the GUI option. Versa recommends that Director be upgraded to one of the remediated software versions.

The advisory is shared for download at security-portal.versa-networks.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-23172 since 01/12/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation requires an enhanced level of successful authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1548.002.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at support.versa-networks.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-18671). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Versa

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• Director

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• 21.2.0
• 21.2.1
• 21.2.2
• 21.2.3
• 22.1.0
• 22.1.1
• 22.1.2
• 22.1.3
• 22.1.4

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