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Catalyst SD-WAN Manager
PRODUCT· dossier confidence 20%
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager is a network management platform for Cisco's SD-WAN infrastructure. Its security posture is critically compromised by a cluster of high-severity vulnerabilities discovered in 2026, including active exploitation of information disclosure flaws and multiple RCEs exploitable by local attackers.
PROFILE
CategoryNetwork Management SoftwareWhat they doCisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager is a management platform for Cisco's Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) solutions, providing centralized control and provisioning for SD-WAN deployments.
Websitehttps://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/sdwan/knowledge-base/CloudOps/cisco-sdwan-cloudops.html ↗
SECURITY POSTURE
The product has a poor security track record, with multiple high-severity vulnerabilities discovered in 2026 including credential exposure, path traversal, remote code execution, and active exploitation of information disclosure flaws.
Notable failures
- CVE-2026-20128: recoverable password format enabling privilege escalation
- CVE-2026-20262: authenticated arbitrary file overwrite via path traversal
- CVE-2026-20245: authenticated local RCE via crafted file uploads
- CVE-2026-20133: remote information disclosure actively exploited in the wild
Patterns: repeated high-severity vulnerabilities in 2026; vulnerabilities allowing local attackers to escalate privileges or execute commands; active exploitation of information disclosure flaws
FAILURE HISTORY · 5
| DATE | EVENT | SEV | SUMMARY |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-30 | CVE-2026-76504 | high | An unauthenticated remote attacker could escalate to admin privileges via improper URI encoding in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager. |
| 2026-04-20 | CVE-2026-20128 | high | Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager stores passwords in a recoverable format, allowing local attackers to escalate privileges by reading credential files. |
| 2026-06-15 | CVE-2026-20262 | high | Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager allows authenticated attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via path traversal. |
| 2026-06-09 | CVE-2026-20245 | high | Cisco SD-WAN Manager allows authenticated local attackers to execute arbitrary root commands via crafted file uploads. |
| 2026-04-20 | CVE-2026-20133 | high | Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager allows remote attackers to view sensitive information due to an exposure vulnerability actively exploited in the wild. |
DOSSIER SOURCES
- Cisco SD-WAN CloudOps · www.cisco.com
- Cloud-hosted SD-WAN control component access - Cisco · www.cisco.com
- Simplify IT with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Animated Explainer · video.cisco.com
Open questions: Catalyst SD-WAN Manager is a product, not a company; company-level profile fields (founded, hq, size, ownership, website) are unavailable from the provided evidence.
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