CVE-2022-20699

CRITICALNVD 10.010.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 10.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-03-03), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 10.0 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild
10.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictMitigate nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 72%CVSS: 10.0Exploit: Metasploit · other public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

Multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco Small Business RV160, RV260, RV340, and RV345 Series Routers could allow an attacker to do any of the following: Execute arbitrary code Elevate privileges Execute arbitrary commands Bypass authentication and authorization protections Fetch and run unsigned software Cause denial of service (DoS) For more information about these vulnerabilities, see the Details section of this advisory.

CVSS v3
10.0
EG Score
10.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
100
EG Risk 100/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity100% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 10.0 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
EPSS PROB
72%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (10.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 10.0 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
10.0 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
72% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-22). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Act at medium mission impactAttend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.

No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.

In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-20699

Published

February 10, 2022

Last Modified

October 28, 2025

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Oct 17, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). No fix on record yet. Sources: cisa.
CISA🔴 Active Exploitation

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-20699
Web page

ZDI-22-414 - TrendAI™ Zero Day Initiative™ (ZDI)

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-414/
Web page🟡 PoC Available

Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers Vulnerabilities

https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-smb-mult-vuln-KA9PK6D

Weakness Classification(3)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 18× in last 7d / 168× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,071 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 971 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-23 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 72% · 99th percentile
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  3. 2026-10-23 10:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vchr-42h7-32xh · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  6. 2026-10-21 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 72% · 99th percentile
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  8. 2026-10-21 09:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vchr-42h7-32xh · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  11. 2026-10-20 09:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vchr-42h7-32xh · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  15. 2026-10-18 09:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vchr-42h7-32xh · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  23. 2026-10-15 08:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vchr-42h7-32xh · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  1. 2026-10-14 08:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vchr-42h7-32xh · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  3. 2026-10-13 08:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vchr-42h7-32xh · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  14. 2026-10-11 13:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vchr-42h7-32xh · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  25. 2026-10-09 22:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vchr-42h7-32xh · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  26. 2026-10-09 20:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 72% · 99th percentile
  27. 2026-10-09 18:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vchr-42h7-32xh · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  56. 2026-10-05 17:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 72% · 99th percentile
  57. 2026-10-05 15:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vchr-42h7-32xh · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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Publicly available exploits

(2 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 1 GitHub PoC). No fix is confirmed yet, so defenders should restrict or isolate affected systems accordingly until one is published.

  • Metasploitexploit/linux/misc/cisco_rv340_sslvpn✓ verified
    Published May 11, 2022

    Cisco RV340 SSL VPN Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCAudiobahn/CVE-2022-20699
    Published Feb 7, 2022

    Cisco Anyconnect VPN unauth RCE (rwx stack)

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2022-20699?
CVE-2022-20699 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on February 10, 2022. Multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco Small Business RV160, RV260, RV340, and RV345 Series Routers could allow an attacker to do any of the following: Execute arbitrary code Elevate privileges Execute arbitrary commands Bypass authentication and authorization protections Fetch and run unsigned software…
When was CVE-2022-20699 made public?
CVE-2022-20699 was made public on February 3, 2022: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Cisco Systems, Inc., gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on February 10, 2022. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 28, 2025; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2022-20699 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2022-20699 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 3, 2022, affecting Cisco Small Business RV160, RV260, RV340, and RV345 Series Routers. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2022-20699?
CVE-2022-20699 has a CVSS v3 base score of 10.0 (NVD).
Which products are affected by CVE-2022-20699?
CVE-2022-20699 affects Cisco Small Business RV160, RV260, RV340, and RV345 Series Routers.
How do I remediate CVE-2022-20699?
No fix for CVE-2022-20699 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.

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