CVE-2022-20830 Cisco Software-Defined Application Visibility and Control on Cisco vManage Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
Unauthenticated remote attackers can access the Cisco SD-AVC GUI on specific installations to view device names, logs, and DNS addresses.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-20830?
CVE-2022-20830 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst Sd-Wan Manager, published on 10 Oct 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A vulnerability in authentication mechanism of Cisco Software-Defined Application Visibility and Control (SD-AVC) on Cisco vManage could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access the GUI of Cisco SD-AVC without authentication. This vulnerability exists because the GUI is accessible on self-managed cloud installations or local server installations of Cisco vManage. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by accessing the exposed GUI of Cisco SD-AVC. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to view managed device names, SD-AVC logs, and SD-AVC DNS server IP addresses.
Weakness: CWE-306
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-20830?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Cisco Catalyst Sd-Wan Manager, Cisco Sd-Wan Vmanage.
How do I fix CVE-2022-20830?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-20830 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.
Is CVE-2022-20830 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-20830 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Catalyst Sd-Wan Manager
- CVE-2026-20182 Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller Authentication Bypass
- CVE-2026-20127 Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller and Manager Authentication Bypass
- CVE-2026-76504 Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Hex Encoding
- CVE-2026-20245 Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
- CVE-2022-20775 Cisco SD-WAN Path Traversal
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8c9g-fr4h-6x8r.