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CVE-2025-23170: 
Versa Director vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Versa Director SD-WAN orchestration platform contains a command injection vulnerability (CVE-2025-23170) discovered in its SSH session functionality. The vulnerability exists in the shell-connect.py script that enables SSH connections to remote CPEs and Director shell via Shell-In-A-Box, where the user argument is susceptible to command injection (NVD CVE, Wiz).

Technical details

The vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the system through command injection in the user argument of the shell-connect.py script. The CVSS v3.1 base score is 6.7 (Medium) with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H, indicating local access requirement with high privileges needed (NVD CVE).

Impact

If exploited, the vulnerability enables attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the affected system, potentially leading to complete system compromise with high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (Wiz).

Mitigation and workarounds

There are no workarounds available to disable the GUI option. Versa Networks recommends upgrading Director to one of the remediated software versions for complete mitigation (NVD CVE).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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Published date

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  • cpe:2.3:a:versa-networks:versa_director
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  • cpe:2.3:a:versa-networks:versa_director
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  • Versa DirectorVersa Director
  • cpe:2.3:a:versa-networks:versa_director
NoNoJun 19, 2025

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