CVE-2023-20179: cisco cisco sd-wan vmanage
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2023-20179 is a medium (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability in cisco cisco sd-wan vmanage. EPSS estimates a 0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 36.6% of scored vulnerabilities.
Timeline
- 27-09-2023PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 23-09-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly Cisco SD-WAN vManage, could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to inject HTML content. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of user-supplied data in element fields. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting malicious content within requests and persuading a user to view a page that contains injected content. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to modify pages within the web-based management interface, possibly leading to further browser-based attacks against users of the application.
CVSS metrics
2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version- CVE.orgCNA4.3MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NDiffers
EPSS trend
Probability
0.44%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
37%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
+0.09 pp
From 0.35% on 18-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root cause- CWE-80Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages.
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.
Affected systems
Cisco2 products
- cisco sd-wan vmanage20.3.1 | 20.3.2 | 20.3.2.1 | 20.3.3 | 20.3.3.1 | 20.3.4 | 20.3.4.1 | 20.3.4.2 | 20.3.5 | 20.3.6 | 20.3.7 | 20.3.7.1 | 20.3.4.3 | 20.3.5.1 | 20.3.7.2 | 20.4.1 | 20.4.1.1 | 20.4.1.2 | 20.4.2 | 20.4.2.2 | 20.4.2.1 | 20.4.2.3 | 20.5.1 | 20.5.1.2 | 20.5.1.1 | 20.6.1 | 20.6.1.1 | 20.6.2.1 | 20.6.2.2 | 20.6.2 | 20.6.3 | 20.6.3.1 | 20.6.4 | 20.6.5 | 20.6.5.1 | 20.6.1.2 | 20.6.3.2 | 20.6.4.1 | 20.6.5.2 | 20.6.5.4 | 20.6.3.3 | 20.6.4.2 | 20.6.3.0.45 | 20.6.3.0.46 | 20.6.3.0.47 | 20.6.3.4 | 20.6.4.0.21 | 20.6.5.1.10 | 20.6.5.1.7 | 20.6.5.1.9 | 20.6.5.2.4 | 20.6.5.5 | 20.7.1 | 20.7.1.1 | 20.7.2 | 20.8.1 | 20.9.1 | 20.9.2 | 20.9.2.1 | 20.9.3 | 20.9.3.1 | 20.9.2.3 | 20.9.3.0.12 | 20.9.3.0.16 | 20.9.3.0.17 | 20.9.3.0.18 | 20.9.3.2 | 20.9.3.2_LI_Images | 20.9.4 | 20.10.1 | 20.10.1.1 | 20.10.1.2 | 20.11.1 | 20.11.1.1 | 20.11.1.2
- sd-wan_vmanage< 20.6.6 | ≥ 20.7, < 20.10
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