Just when network admins thought the Cisco SD-WAN patch queue might finally be shrinking, Switchzilla has confirmed miscreants are exploiting more vulnerabilities in its SD-WAN management software.
The newly abused flaws affect Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, the platform formerly known as vManage that sits at the center of many organizations’ SD-WAN deployments. One of the bugs, CVE-2026-20122, carries a CVSS score of 7.1 and allows an authenticated remote attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on the local filesystem. The second issue, CVE-2026-20128, is a lower-rated information disclosure flaw with a CVSS score of 5.5.
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