high Known exploitedREV. 01

CVE-2026-20262Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager — file overwrite via upload traversal

Cisco's Catalyst software-defined wide-area network manager (SD-WAN Manager) does not validate the path in a file upload, so a user with even a single-task account can create or overwrite any file on the appliance — a step that later leads to root.

YOUR NEXT MOVE

Upgrade SD-WAN Manager per Cisco advisory cisco-sa-sdwan-arbfw-c2rZvQ now; review low-privilege accounts and look for files written outside the upload paths.

Read the risk

THE VITAL STATS
CVSS score
6.5/ 10
CVSS v3.1
EPSS probability
28%
Likelihood of exploitation
Attack complexity
Low
Conditions needed to exploit
Known exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
CVE published
2026-06-15
Added to KEV
2026-06-15
Exploit published
Not recorded
Confidence
high
Kill chain
privilege escalation
MITRE ATT&CK
—
Severity
high

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

Attacker needsValid credentials on the web interface, even a lower-privileged single-task account.

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-2026-20262 · CRDS 0.1 · Issued 2026-09-24