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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-23170
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).
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 (NVD CVE).
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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