CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2021-1232 — Cisco Catalyst Sd-Wan Manager security vulnerability
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to read arbitrary files on the underlying filesystem of an affected system. This vulnerability is due to insufficient access control for sensitive information that is written to an affected system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by accessing sensitive information that they are not authorized to access on an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain access to devices and other network management systems that they should not have access to.Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 6.5 (3.1)
- Published
- 2024-11-18
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-522
Affected products
- cisco / catalyst_sd-wan_manager / 17.2.4
- cisco / catalyst_sd-wan_manager / 17.2.5
- cisco / catalyst_sd-wan_manager / 17.2.6
- cisco / catalyst_sd-wan_manager / 17.2.7
- cisco / catalyst_sd-wan_manager / 17.2.8
- cisco / catalyst_sd-wan_manager / 17.2.9
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Matched remediation archetype
Information disclosure and sensitive data exposure
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Check exposure
- Trace sensitive data through responses, errors, logs, metrics, traces, caches, exports, files, backups, and client bundles.
- Identify affected subjects, tenants, retention windows, access controls, and downstream copies without opening unnecessary sensitive records.
- Review metadata, timing, status, length, and existence signals as well as direct content disclosure.
Remediate safely
- Minimize collection and output, apply field-level authorization and redaction at a centralized boundary, and return generic external errors.
- Remove secrets and sensitive data from logs, artifacts, URLs, caches, and client-side bundles; rotate credentials that may have been exposed.
- Update the affected component and add synthetic-data tests for response, error, observability, and export paths.
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