CVE-2026-20182

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

En bref

Sévérité
CRITICAL 10.0
Exploitation
Exploitation connue (CISA KEV) · ajoutée le 2026-05-14
Exploitée selon l'ENISA depuis le 2026-05-14
EPSS
EPSS 91.82 % · centile 100 (2026-10-27)
État
PUBLISHED
Publiée
Mise à jour
Attribuée par
cisco
Statut NVD
Analyzed

Description

May 2026: This security advisory provides the details and fix information for a vulnerability that was discovered and fixed after the was disclosed in February 2026. This new advisory is for a new vulnerability in the control connection handshaking. The section of this advisory includes Show Control Connections guidance to help with system checks.  A vulnerability in the peering authentication in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller, formerly SD-WAN vSmart, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly SD-WAN vManage, and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Validator, formerly SD-WAN vBond, could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and obtain administrative privileges on an affected system. This vulnerability exists because the peering authentication mechanism in an affected system is not working properly. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted requests to the affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to log in to an affected Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller as an internal, high-privileged, non-root user account. Using this account, the attacker could access NETCONF, which would then allow the attacker to manipulate network configuration for the SD-WAN fabric.

Scores

VersionScoreVecteurÉvalué par
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hcisco
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)

Faiblesses (CWE)

Références européennes

Avis du CERT-FR

Configurations affectées (CPE NVD)

Produits affectés

ProduitVersions
Cisco · Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controlleraffected 20.6.4 ; affected 20.9.2 ; affected 20.3.6 ; affected 20.7.2 ; affected 20.7.1 ; affected 20.5.1
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

Références

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
CISA Known Exploited VulnerabilitiesCC0 1.0
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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