Exploiting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager: Deep Dive into Unrestricted File Upload (CVE-2026-20262)

ExploItIng CIsco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager UnrestrIcted File Upload (CVE-2026-20262)

Introduction Modern enterprise network architectures heavily rely on Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN) to ensure operational flexibility, automated routing, and centralized management across global infrastructures. At the heart of these complex ecosystems lie the orchestration and management planes, which dictate the entire network topology, enforce unified security policies, and maintain edge node configurations. Because they hold such high administrative privileges over the network fabric, these