{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-20098 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2023-20098 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2023-20098 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst Sd-Wan Manager, published on 9 May 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-20098 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-20098 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst Sd-Wan Manager, published on 9 May 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-20098 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Cisco Catalyst Sd-Wan Manager. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-20098/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-20098/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-20098","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-20098/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-20098","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_modify"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"SD-WAN management software","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"An authenticated local attacker with administrative privileges can delete arbitrary files, including root-owned files, via directory traversal in CLI commands.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"cisco","cpe":[{"product":"catalyst_sd-wan_manager","vendor":"cisco"},{"product":"sd-wan_vmanage","vendor":"cisco"}],"cvss":{"score":4.4,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-22","name":"Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory"},{"id":"CWE-24","name":"Path Traversal: '../filedir'"}],"description":"A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco SDWAN vManage Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to delete arbitrary files.\r\n\r This vulnerability is due to improper filtering of directory traversal character sequences within system commands. An attacker with administrative privileges could exploit this vulnerability by running a system command containing directory traversal character sequences to target an arbitrary file. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to delete arbitrary files from the system, including files owned by root.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Path traversal in Cisco SD-WAN vManage","id":"CVE-2023-20098","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"cisco:catalyst_sd-wan_manager","products":["cisco:catalyst_sd-wan_manager"],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Cisco IOS XE Software for Wireless LAN Controllers CAPWAP Join Denial of Service Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2023-20100"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Cisco Access Point Software Command Injection Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2023-20097"},"products":["Cisco SD-WAN vManage"],"published":"2023-05-09","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller Authentication Bypass","id":"CVE-2026-20182","kev_date_added":"2026-05-14","published":"2026-05-14"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller and Manager Authentication Bypass","id":"CVE-2026-20127","kev_date_added":"2026-02-25","published":"2026-02-25"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Hex Encoding","id":"CVE-2026-76504","kev_date_added":"2026-09-30","published":"2026-09-30"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output","id":"CVE-2026-20245","kev_date_added":"2026-06-09","published":"2026-06-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Cisco SD-WAN Path Traversal","id":"CVE-2022-20775","kev_date_added":"2026-02-25","published":"2022-09-30"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Storing Passwords in a Recoverable Format","id":"CVE-2026-20128","kev_date_added":"2026-04-20","published":"2026-02-25"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Directory or Path Traversal","id":"CVE-2026-20262","kev_date_added":"2026-06-15","published":"2026-06-15"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-02","vendors":["Cisco"]},"summary":"An authenticated local attacker with administrative privileges can delete arbitrary files, including root-owned files, via directory traversal in CLI commands.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-20098/"}