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CVE-2022-20699

95
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-20699 is a critical vulnerability affecting Cisco Small Business RV160, RV260, RV340, and RV345 Series Routers, allowing for arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation, authentication bypass, and denial of service. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), it presents a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, with public Metasploit modules available, and has garnered significant community and media attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.0.03.24CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:rv340_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.0.03.24CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:rv340w_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.0.03.24CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:rv345_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.0.03.24CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:rv345p_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

10.0CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
72.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Mar 3, 2022
Metasploit: Cisco RV340 SSL VPN Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution · Feb 2, 2022
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.7246 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
packetstormsecurity.com / files/167113/Cisco-RV340-SSL-VPN-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.html
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-smb-mult-vuln-KA9PK6D
Vendor Advisory
zerodayinitiative.com / advisories/ZDI-22-414
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry