⚠ Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) Tracker

Description

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller & Manager contain an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and obtain administrative privileges on an affected system.

Lifecycle Timeline

• 2026-02-25
  First national advisory

  CISA — CISA and Partners Release Guidance for Ongoing Global Exploitation of Cisco SD-WAN Systems

  CyberzSOC advisory index →
• 2026-05-07
  Public exploit code 2 months later

  Metasploit — Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller vHub Authentication Bypass

  Metasploit →
• 2026-05-14
  CVE published 7 days later

  Entered the public CVE record.

  CVE.org →
• 2026-05-14
  Added to CISA KEV

  Listed as known exploited, which starts the federal remediation clock.

  CISA KEV →
• 2026-05-16
  EPSS flags exploitation risk 2 days later

  Entered EPSS already at 38.0%. Dated to the sampled week.

  FIRST EPSS →
• 2026-05-17
  Federal remediation due 1 day later

  Deadline for federal civilian agencies under BOD 22-01 — now passed.

  CISA KEV
• not recorded
  Vendor fix published

  No dated vendor fix. Only Microsoft publishes a machine-readable release date; other vendors state a fixed version without one.

Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 31 points from 2026-05-16, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 91.5% on 2026-08-15.

Published Applicability

Check whether a specific version is affected →

What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.

Research & News Coverage

Articles from monitored vendor research blogs and security news feeds that specifically mention this CVE. Coverage begins when feed monitoring started; earlier articles are not indexed.

Detection & Exploitation

Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan); Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM); Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and are not vetted: some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was published, not as code to run.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0; its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed GNU GPL v2.

CISA Assessment (Vulnrichment / SSVC)

D3FEND Countermeasures

Defensive techniques inferred by MITRE D3FEND from the underlying weakness (CWE-287) — general hardening and detection guidance for this weakness class, not a vendor patch for this specific CVE.

KEV Catalog Status

Listed By

Referenced in Advisories

Weaponization Timeline — Offensive & Testing Tools

Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.

External References

CVE.org record → NVD entry → CISA KEV catalog → FortiGuard Labs → Rapid7 AttackerKB →