⚠ Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) Tracker

Description

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller, formerly SD-WAN vSmart, and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly SD-WAN vManage, contain an authentication bypass vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and obtain administrative privileges on an affected system. This vulnerability exists because the peering authentication mechanism in an affected system is not working properly. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted requests to an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to log in to an affected Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller as an internal, high-privileged, non-root user account. Using this account, the attacker could access NETCONF, which would then allow the attacker to manipulate network configuration for the SD-WAN fabric.

Lifecycle Timeline

• 2026-02-25
  CVE published

  Entered the public CVE record.

  CVE.org →
• 2026-02-25
  Public exploit code

  Metasploit — Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller Authentication Bypass

  Metasploit →
• 2026-02-25
  First national advisory

  CISA — CISA and Partners Release Guidance for Ongoing Global Exploitation of Cisco SD-WAN Systems

  CyberzSOC advisory index →
• 2026-02-25
  Added to CISA KEV

  Listed as known exploited, which starts the federal remediation clock.

  CISA KEV →
• 2026-02-27
  Federal remediation due 2 days later

  Deadline for federal civilian agencies under BOD 22-01 — now passed.

  CISA KEV
• 2026-04-04
  EPSS flags exploitation risk 36 days later

  Probability rose past 10%, from 1.0% to 31.3%. Dated to the sampled week.

  FIRST EPSS →
• not recorded
  Vendor fix published

  No dated vendor fix. Only Microsoft publishes a machine-readable release date; other vendors state a fixed version without one.

Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 42 points from 2026-02-28, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 88.2% on 2026-07-25.

Published Applicability

Check whether a specific version is affected →

What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.

Research & News Coverage

Articles from monitored vendor research blogs and security news feeds that specifically mention this CVE. Coverage begins when feed monitoring started; earlier articles are not indexed.

Detection & Exploitation

Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan); Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM); Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and are not vetted: some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was published, not as code to run.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0; its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed GNU GPL v2.

CISA Assessment (Vulnrichment / SSVC)

D3FEND Countermeasures

Defensive techniques inferred by MITRE D3FEND from the underlying weakness (CWE-287) — general hardening and detection guidance for this weakness class, not a vendor patch for this specific CVE.

KEV Catalog Status

Listed By

Referenced in Advisories

Weaponization Timeline — Offensive & Testing Tools

No exploit-tool sightings recorded for this CVE.

Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.

External References

CVE.org record → NVD entry → CISA KEV catalog → FortiGuard Labs → Rapid7 AttackerKB →