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Information Disclosure in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager DCA

IdentifiersCVE-2026-20128CWE-200

CVE-2026-20128 is an information disclosure vulnerability in the Data Collection Agent (DCA) feature of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager. The issue is caused by the presence of a credential file for the DCA user on an affected system that can be read via a crafted HTTP request. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit the flaw to retrieve the file containing the DCA password from an affected system. Cisco states that a successful exploit could then allow the attacker to access another affected system and obtain DCA user privileges. Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager releases 20.18 and later are not affected.

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Impact

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Successful exploitation discloses the DCA user's stored credentials. With the recovered password, an attacker can authenticate to another affected system and gain DCA user privileges there. This can provide unauthorized access to SD-WAN management-related functionality available to the DCA account and may support further intrusion activity as part of a broader attack chain.

Mitigation

If you can’t patch tonight, do this now.

If immediate upgrading is not possible, reduce exposure of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager to untrusted networks, restrict access to the vulnerable HTTP interface, and monitor for suspicious crafted HTTP requests and anomalous use of DCA credentials. Review systems for unauthorized access using the DCA account and rotate DCA credentials where compromise is suspected. The provided content does not describe an official vendor workaround beyond upgrading.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Upgrade Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager to a fixed release. Based on the provided content, releases 20.18 and later are not affected. Organizations running affected earlier releases should move to a vendor-recommended fixed version as soon as possible.
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