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CVE-2022-20701

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-20701 encompasses multiple critical vulnerabilities in Cisco Small Business RV160, RV260, RV340, and RV345 Series Routers, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code, elevate privileges, bypass authentication, and cause denial of service. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), these vulnerabilities are easily exploitable with low attack complexity and can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This CVE is actively exploited in the wild, as confirmed by its presence in CISA's KEV catalog, and has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, despite a lack of public exploit intelligence on platforms like Metasploit or ExploitDB.

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
9.75%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Mar 3, 2022
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0975 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 17,070 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
tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-smb-mult-vuln-KA9PK6D
Vendor Advisory
zerodayinitiative.com / advisories/ZDI-22-412
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry