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Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software Privilege Escalation (cisco-sa-sdwan-privesc-vman-kth3c82B)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 151133

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

According to its self-reported version, Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software is affected by a vulnerability due to incorrect privilege assignment. An authenticated, local attacker can exploit this to elevate their privileges from Administrator to root by creating a malicious file.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug ID CSCvt11534

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b8f24bba

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvt11534

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 151133

File Name: cisco-sa-sdwan-privesc-vman-kth3c82B.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 6/29/2021

Updated: 8/5/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-1462

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:sd-wan_firmware, cpe:/a:cisco:sd-wan_vmanage

Required KB Items: Cisco/Viptela/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/3/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-1462

CWE: 20

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-sdwan-privesc-vman-kth3c82B

IAVA: 2021-A-0118

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvt11534