CVE-2026-20126Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.33%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 73% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager could allow an authenticated, local attacker with low privileges to gain root privileges on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability is due to an insufficient user authentication mechanism in the REST API. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a request to the REST API of the affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain root privileges on the underlying operating system.
Timeline
ID reserved
By cisco
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 23 days later
· 23 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ciscoCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.33% · top 73% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
Cisco · Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager
- affected 20.1.12
- affected 19.2.1
- affected 18.4.4
- affected 18.4.5
- affected 20.1.1.1
- affected 20.1.1
- affected 19.3.0
- affected 19.2.2
- affected 19.2.099
- affected 18.3.6
- affected 18.3.7
- affected 19.2.0
- affected 18.3.8
- affected 19.0.0
- affected 19.1.0
- affected 18.4.302
- affected 18.4.303
- affected 19.2.097
- affected 19.2.098
- affected 17.2.10
- affected 18.3.6.1
- affected 19.0.1a
- affected 18.2.0
- affected 18.4.3
- affected 18.4.1
- affected 17.2.8
- affected 18.3.3.1
- affected 18.4.0
- affected 18.3.1
- affected 17.2.6
- affected 17.2.9
- affected 18.3.4
- affected 17.2.5
- affected 18.3.1.1
- affected 18.3.5
- affected 18.4.0.1
- affected 18.3.3
- affected 17.2.7
- affected 17.2.4
- affected 18.3.0
- and 295 more
What to do
Exploitation: The Cisco PSIRT is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerabilities that are described in CVE-2026-20133, CVE-2026-20126, and CVE-2026-20129. In March 2026, the Cisco PSIRT became aware of active exploitation of the vulnerabilities that are described in CVE-2026-20128 and CVE-2026-20122 only. The vulnerabilities that are described in the other CVEs in this advisory are not known to have been compromised. Cisco strongly recommends that customers upgrade to a fixed software release to remediate these vulnerabilities.
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-8674 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-20126)Record last updated .