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CVE-2026-20126

Published: Feb 25, 2026

Modified: Mar 20, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

8.8

HIGH

Description

A vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager could allow an authenticated, local attacker with low privileges to gain root privileges on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability is due to an insufficient user authentication mechanism in the REST API. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a request to the REST API of the affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain root privileges on the underlying operating system.

VendorProductVersions

Cisco

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager

affected
20.1.12
affected
19.2.1
affected
18.4.4
affected
18.4.5
affected
20.1.1.1

+330 more versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-648

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

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