How severe is CVE-2018-6961?

CVE-2018-6961 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.1 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 86.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2018-6961: VMware SD-WAN Edge by VeloCloud Command Injection

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

VMware SD-WAN Edge by VeloCloud Command Injection Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-03-25

Remediation due

2022-04-15

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6961

Description

VMware NSX SD-WAN Edge by VeloCloud prior to version 3.1.0 contains a command injection vulnerability in the local web UI component. This component is disabled by default and should not be enabled on untrusted networks. VeloCloud by VMware will be removing this service from the product in future releases. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in remote code execution.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA8.1 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
VMware	NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud	prior to version 3.1.0

References

4 Links

Exploits & PoCs

44959

Vulnerability databases

Other references

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0011.html

Record Details

Published

2018-06-11

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

vmware

Credited to

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