Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2022-20708

Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers Stack-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

What is affected

Vendor Cisco
Product Small Business RV160, RV260, RV340, and RV345 Series Routers
Weakness CWE-121

The vulnerability

A vulnerability 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, or cause a denial of service (DoS).

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 17 March 2022 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 11 Nov 2026, 21:30. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

NVD record ↗ CVE.org record ↗

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