Cisco SD-WAN Path Traversal Vulnerability

Cisco SD-WAN

Cisco SD-WAN CLI contains a path traversal vulnerability that could allow an authenticated local attacker to gain elevated privileges via improper access controls on commands within the application CLI. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as the root user. Added to CISA KEV on 2026-02-25 (federal deadline 2026-02-27).

First seen: 25 Feb 2026
Last update: 25 Feb 2026, 12:00 UTC
Identifiers: CVE-2022-20775
Source: CISA KEV
On the menu as: VPN & firewalls

Check this repository for exposure to one security incident from pwned.coffee. Report first, change nothing until I say so.

## Cisco SD-WAN Path Traversal Vulnerability
Severity: high, exploited in the wild. Patch status: patched.
Affected: Cisco SD-WAN
Ids: CVE-2022-20775

Cisco SD-WAN CLI contains a path traversal vulnerability that could allow an authenticated local attacker to gain elevated privileges via improper access controls on commands within the application CLI. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as the root user. Added to CISA KEV on 2026-02-25 (federal deadline 2026-02-27).

## Steps
1. This touches infrastructure (vpn-edge). Look in terraform, ansible, cloud-init, Dockerfiles and docs for the product and version we run. If it isn't in the repo, say so and list what a human should check on the box.

## Report
A table: file, product or package, version in use, affected yes/no, exact fix. Then anything a human has to check outside the repo.

If you have the pwned.coffee MCP server (https://pwned.coffee/mcp), call lookup_cve("CVE-2022-20775") for the latest, and check_repo with this repo's lockfiles, Dockerfiles and workflows for a full receipt.
Sources: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-20775 https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/supplemental-direction-ed-26-03-hunt-and-hardening-guidance-cisco-sd-wan-systems https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/csa/cisco-sa-sd-wan-priv-E6e8tEdF.html
https://pwned.coffee/i/cisco-sd-wan-path-traversal-vulnerability-cve-2022-20775

Sources

Totalone hot coffee