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CVE-2022-20850

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-20850 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting the CLI of stand-alone Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN Software and Cisco SD-WAN Software. An authenticated, local attacker can exploit insufficient input validation to inject arbitrary file path information, leading to the deletion of arbitrary files from the device's file system. With a CVSS score of 7.1, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local access and authentication, but can result in high impact to integrity and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 18.4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:sd-wan_vbond_orchestrator:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 18.4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:sd-wan_vmanage:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 18.4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:sd-wan_vsmart_controller:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 16.10.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe_sd-wan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 18.4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:sd-wan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
10.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0020 is in the 37th 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

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-arb-file-delete-VB2rVcQv
Vendor Advisory