high Known exploitedREV. 01

CVE-2026-20128Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager — recoverable collector password

Cisco's Catalyst software-defined wide-area network manager (SD-WAN Manager) keeps the data collection agent's password in a file that can be read back, letting an attacker recover it and act as that account on other systems.

YOUR NEXT MOVE

Apply Cisco advisory cisco-sa-sdwan-authbp-qwCX8D4v now and rotate the data collection agent password everywhere it was reused.

Read the risk

THE VITAL STATS
CVSS score
7.5/ 10
CVSS v3.1
EPSS probability
8%
Likelihood of exploitation
Attack complexity
High
Conditions needed to exploit
Known exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
CVE published
2026-02-25
Added to KEV
2026-04-20
Exploit published
Not recorded
Confidence
medium
Kill chain
credential access
MITRE ATT&CK
—
Severity
high

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

Attacker needsAccess to the manager's file system or its web interface; the sources disagree on which, and on whether credentials are needed.

Behind the card

3 REFERENCES
Field-level provenanceTRACE THE SOURCES +

Which source supports each field, when it was retrieved, and who extracted it.

FieldsSourceRetrievedExtractorConfidence
cvss, exploitation.attack_complexity, exploitation.exploit_available, references, published_atnvd.nist.gov2026-09-24scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
exploitation.known_exploited, exploitation.kev_addedcisa.gov2026-09-24scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
epssapi.first.org2026-09-24scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
title, summary, severity, remediation, mitre_attack, kill_chain, recommended_action, confidence, tags, exploitation.prerequisitesnvd.nist.gov2026-09-24claude-codehigh

Printing history

THE RECORD
  1. r1Initial base card

First printing. This card has not been reprinted since publication.

crds:cve-2026-20128 · CRDS 0.1 · Issued 2026-09-24