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Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN: CVE-2021-1465: Cisco SD-WAN vManage Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Mar 3, 2021
Added
Jun 25, 2024
Modified
Apr 1, 2026

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to conduct a directory traversal attack and obtain read access to sensitive files on an affected system.
The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of HTTP requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request that contains directory traversal character sequences to an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to write arbitrary files on the affected system.

Solution

cisco-catalyst-sdwan-update-latest
Title
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