CVSS base score: 7.8 (High) vendor CNA · v3.1
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Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output Vulnerability
Vendor: Cisco Product: Catalyst SD-WAN Manager
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager formerly SD-WAN vManage contains an improper encoding or escaping of output vulnerability. This vulnerability could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root by supplying a crafted file to the affected system.
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 28 points from 2026-06-06, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 25.3% on 2026-07-04.
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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.
| Date | Source | Article |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-01 | Check Point Research | 22nd June – Threat Intelligence Report |
| 2026-06-29 | Check Point Research | 29th June – Threat Intelligence Report |
| 2026-06-25 | FortiGuard Labs Threat Signal | Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability |
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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.
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its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed
GNU GPL v2.
| Source | Date | Record |
|---|---|---|
| CISA Vulnrichment | 2026-06-05 | source record → |
| CISA KEV | 2026-06-09 | source record → |
No exploit-tool sightings recorded for this CVE.
Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.
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