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CVE-2026-20262 · EUVD no mirror located · GCVE no mirror located Verified 2026-06-16

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerability

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager contains a directory or path traversal vulnerability that could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to create a file or overwrite any file on the filesystem of an affected system.

Verdict

Today item — known-exploited.

Confirmed exploited in the wild (CISA KEV). Prioritize remediation now and verify exposure.

CISA KEV Yes · 2026-06-153
01

Is it exploitable?

— the evidence, ranked above the score
Reported exploitation
2 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
sec.cloudapps.cisco.com ↗cisa.gov ↗Confirmed
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-06-15).
CISA KEV ↗Confirmed
Severity / affected
Affected: Cisco, Catalyst SD-WAN Manager. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.
NVD ↗Reported
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-22 Path Traversal — weakness family: Path traversal / file.CWE assignment from the public NVD record; the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
NVD ↗Reported
WeaknessCWE-22 · Path TraversalPath traversal / file
02

Who’s exploiting it?

— attribution turns risk into urgency
Attribution not established

No threat-actor attribution is established from the public feed for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.

03

Why it matters

— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board

Attacker/business narrative framing is pending triage for this record — see Coverage & confidence below. Facts and verdict above are derived deterministically from the public feed.

04

What to do

— defensible action
  • Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
05

Coverage & confidence

— what we know, and what we don’t

Established (cited)

  • KEV listing (CISA)
  • 2 reported-exploitation source(s)
  • CWE weakness mapping (NVD)
  • Catalogued by cisco (CNA)

    • Coverage gaps — stated, not hidden

  • No EUVD / GCVE mirror in feed — single-authority dependency for the identifier.
  • EPSS & exposure are time-varying; verify live at the source.
  • Threat-actor attribution not established from feed data — absence of a name is not absence of compromise.
  • No finder/reporter credit recorded in the public CVE entry — the work behind this find is unattributed.
  • Attacker/business narrative framing pending triage.
    • Disclosure & credit2
    Catalogued by ciscoCNA
    Credited with finding itNo finder named in the public CVE record — the work behind this find is unattributed.