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CVE-2022-20775

73
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-20775 is a high-severity vulnerability in the Cisco SD-WAN Software CLI, allowing an authenticated, local attacker to gain elevated privileges due to improper access controls. With a CVSS score of 7.8, this flaw enables an attacker with low privileges to execute arbitrary commands as the root user, leading to high impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, as confirmed by its presence on the CISA KEV catalog and Hot List, and has garnered significant community and media attention, though no public exploit code is currently available.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 20.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:catalyst_sd-wan_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 20.7, < 20.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:catalyst_sd-wan_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
20.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:catalyst_sd-wan_manager:20.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 20.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:sd-wan_vbond_orchestrator:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 20.7, < 20.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:sd-wan_vbond_orchestrator:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
12.47%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Feb 25, 2026
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1247 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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
github.com / orangecertcc/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-wmjv-552v-pxjc
ExploitThird Party Advisory
tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-sd-wan-priv-E6e8tEdF
Vendor Advisory
sec.cloudapps.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-sd-wan-priv-E6e8tEdF
Vendor Advisory