CVE-2021-1491

Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software Information Disclosure Vulnerability

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 6.5
EPSS
EPSS 1.33 % · percentile 71 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to read arbitrary files on the underlying file system of the device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient file scope limiting. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by creating a specific file reference on the file system and then accessing it through the web-based management interface. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to read arbitrary files from the file system of the underlying operating system.Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:X/RL:X/RC:Xcisco
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manageraffected 20.1.12 ; affected 19.2.1 ; affected 18.4.4 ; affected 18.4.5 ; affected 20.1.1.1 ; affected 20.1.1

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD