CVE-2022-20775

CRITICALNVD 7.89.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-02-25), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 7.8 retained for reference. The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 7.8 HIGH under GitHub Security Advisory CVSS. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild

Also known asEUVD-2022-26025 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low or medium mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 12%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

The vendor states that a fix is released ("Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability"), but the CVE record does not name the fixed version — check the vendor's advisory for the fixed release and apply it.

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco SD-WAN Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain elevated privileges. This vulnerability is due to improper access controls on commands within the application CLI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by running a maliciously crafted command on the application CLI. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as the root user. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability. https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-sd-wan-priv-E6e8tEdF

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
75
EG Risk 75/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity78% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: The vendor states that a fix is released ("Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability"), but the CVE record does not name the fixed version. Check the vendor's advisory for the fixed release and apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.
EPSS PROB
12%
EPSS %ILE
96th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 7.8 HIGH.

EG Severity
7.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
12% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Attend at medium mission impactTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.

The vendor states that a fix is released ("Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability"), but the CVE record does not name the fixed version. Check the vendor's advisory for the fixed release and apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Please adhere to CISA’s guidelines to assess exposure and mitigate risks associated with Cisco SD-WAN devices as outlines in CISA’s Emergency Directive 26-03 (URL listed below in Notes) and CISA’s “Hunt & Hardening Guidance for Cisco SD-WAN Devices (URL listed below in Notes). Adhere to the applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are not available.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/ed-26-03-mitigate-vulnerabilities-cisco-sd-wan-systems · https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/supplemental-direction-ed-26-03-hunt-and-hardening-guidance-cisco-sd-wan-systems · https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/csa/cisco-sa-sd-wan-priv-E6e8tEdF.html · https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-20775

Published

September 30, 2022

Last Modified

February 26, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Oct 26, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Vendor states a fix is released — the CVE record does not name the version. Sources: github.
Web page

Cisco SD-WAN Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-sd-wan-priv-E6e8tEdF
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)🟡 PoC Available

Path Traversal in SD-WAN vEdge (x86 and mips64) routers (CVE-2022-20775) · Advisory · orangecertcc/security-research · GitHub

https://github.com/orangecertcc/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-wmjv-552v-pxjc

Weakness Classification(2)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 21× in last 7d / 138× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,218 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 1,118 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 08:11 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-02 08:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  3. 2026-11-01 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 12% · 96th percentile
  4. 2026-11-01 06:52 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-11-01 06:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  6. 2026-10-31 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 12% · 96th percentile
  7. 2026-10-31 05:34 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-31 05:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  9. 2026-10-30 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 12% · 96th percentile
  10. 2026-10-30 04:17 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-30 04:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  12. 2026-10-29 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 12% · 96th percentile
  13. 2026-10-29 02:58 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-29 02:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  15. 2026-10-28 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 12% · 96th percentile
  16. 2026-10-28 01:41 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-28 01:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  18. 2026-10-27 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 12% · 96th percentile
  19. 2026-10-27 00:23 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-27 00:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  21. 2026-10-26 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 12% · 96th percentile
  22. 2026-10-25 23:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  1. 2026-10-24 21:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  2. 2026-10-24 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 12% · 96th percentile
  3. 2026-10-23 20:28 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-23 20:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  5. 2026-10-23 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 12% · 96th percentile
  6. 2026-10-22 19:11 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-22 19:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  8. 2026-10-22 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 12% · 96th percentile
  9. 2026-10-21 17:53 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-21 17:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  11. 2026-10-21 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 12% · 96th percentile
  12. 2026-10-20 16:35 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-20 16:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  14. 2026-10-20 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 12% · 96th percentile
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  16. 2026-10-19 15:16 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-19 15:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  18. 2026-10-18 13:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  19. 2026-10-18 08:45 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-17 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 12% · 96th percentile
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  22. 2026-10-17 12:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  23. 2026-10-16 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 12% · 96th percentile
  24. 2026-10-16 11:20 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-16 11:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  26. 2026-10-15 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 12% · 96th percentile
  27. 2026-10-15 10:01 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-10-15 10:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  29. 2026-10-14 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 12% · 96th percentile
  30. 2026-10-14 08:42 UTCEG score recompute
  31. 2026-10-14 08:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  32. 2026-10-13 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 12% · 96th percentile
  33. 2026-10-13 07:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  36. 2026-10-12 06:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  37. 2026-10-12 02:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  39. 2026-10-11 22:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  41. 2026-10-11 18:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  43. 2026-10-11 15:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  46. 2026-10-11 11:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  47. 2026-10-11 07:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  51. 2026-10-10 20:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  53. 2026-10-10 17:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  59. 2026-10-09 22:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  61. 2026-10-09 19:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  62. 2026-10-09 15:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  63. 2026-10-09 11:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  71. 2026-10-08 13:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x65r-rvgh-v43v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2022-20775?
CVE-2022-20775 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 30, 2022. A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco SD-WAN Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain elevated privileges. This vulnerability is due to improper access controls on commands within the application CLI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by running a maliciously crafted…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2022-20775 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2022-20775 was published on September 30, 2022. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of February 26, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2022-20775 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2022-20775 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on February 25, 2026, affecting Cisco SD-WAN. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. The vendor states that a fix is released ("Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability"), but the CVE record does not name the fixed version. Check the vendor's advisory for the fixed release and apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2022-20775?
CVE-2022-20775 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0 (CRITICAL).
Which products are affected by CVE-2022-20775?
CVE-2022-20775 affects Cisco SD-WAN.
How do I remediate CVE-2022-20775?
The CVE record for CVE-2022-20775 states that the vendor has released a fix: "Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability." The record does not name the fixed version: check the vendor's advisory for the fixed release and update to it.

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