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Cisco flags ongoing exploitation of two recently patched Catalyst SD-WAN flaws

Cisco warns that two recently patched Catalyst SD-WAN flaws, CVE-2026-20128 and CVE-2026-20122, are already being actively exploited in the wild. Cisco warned customers that threat actors are actively exploiting two recently patched Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-20128 and CVE-2026-20122. The networking giant urged organizations to apply the latest security updates to reduce the risk of compromise.…

Cisco SD-WAN Manager Vulnerabilities Actively Exploited

Cisco is warning customers that attackers are actively exploiting multiple vulnerabilities affecting its Catalyst SD-WAN Manager platform. The software serves as a centralized management console used to monitor and control large distributed SD-WAN deployments.  These vulnerabilities “… could allow an attacker to access an affected system, elevate privileges to root, gain access to sensitive information,…

Cisco issues emergency patches for critical firewall vulnerabilities

Cisco has handed security teams one of the largest ever patching workloads affecting its firewall products, including fixes for two ‘perfect 10’ vulnerabilities in the company’s Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software. Overall, the March 4 release, the first of its semiannual firewall updates for 2026, addresses 25 security advisories covering 48 individual CVEs. The…

Cisco Firewall Management Flaw Enables Remote Code Execution

Cisco has reported a vulnerability in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software that could allow attackers to remotely execute code and take full control of affected systems.  The flaw does not require user interaction or authentication. “An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted serialized Java object to the web-based management interface…

Cisco reveals 2 max-severity defects in firewall management software

Cisco released information on a pair of max-severity vulnerabilities in its firewall management software Wednesday that unauthenticated, remote attackers could exploit to obtain the highest level of access to the underlying operating system or on affected devices. The vulnerabilities — CVE-2026-20079 and CVE-2026-20131 — affect the web-based interface of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC)…

Cisco Confirms Active Exploitation of Two Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Vulnerabilities

Cisco has disclosed that two more vulnerabilities affecting Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (formerly SD-WAN vManage) have come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2026-20122 (CVSS score: 7.1) – An arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability that could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on the local file…

Cisco warns of SD-WAN Manager exploitation, fixes 48 firewall vulnerabilities

Cisco has confirmed that two Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-20128 and CVE-2026-20122) patched in late February 2025 are being exploited by attackers. The exploited vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-20128, CVE-2026-20122) CVE-2026-20128 is a bug in the Data Collection Agent (DCA) feature of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, which could allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain DCA user privileges…

Cisco fixes maximum-severity Secure FMC bugs threatening firewall security

Cisco patched two critical Secure FMC vulnerabilities that could let attackers gain root access to managed firewalls. Cisco addressed two maximum-severity vulnerabilities in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) that could allow attackers to gain root access. Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) is a centralized management platform for Cisco firewalls. It lets administrators configure,…

Cisco SD-WAN Zero-Day Actively Exploited to Gain Root Access

A zero-day vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN products has been actively exploited since at least 2023, allowing attackers to bypass authentication and ultimately gain root access in targeted environments.  This flaw affects core control-plane components and has been linked to a sophisticated threat actor cluster known as UAT-8616. “The Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN zero-day, which is…

U.S. CISA adds Cisco SD-WAN flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Cisco SD-WAN flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added two Cisco SD-WAN flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the catalog: CVE-2022-20775 Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Path Traversal Vulnerability CVE-2026-20127 Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller and Manager Authentication…

Hackers abused Cisco SD-WAN zero-day since 2023 to gain full admin control

Cisco SD-WAN vulnerability CVE-2026-20127 has been exploited since 2023 to gain unauthenticated admin access. A critical Cisco SD-WAN vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20127 (CVSS score of 10.0), has been actively exploited since 2023. The flaw affects Catalyst SD-WAN Controller and Manager and allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication and gain full administrative access by sending…

Cisco SD-WAN Zero-Day CVE-2026-20127 Exploited Since 2023 for Admin Access

A newly disclosed maximum-severity security flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller (formerly vSmart) and Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (formerly vManage) has come under active exploitation in the wild as part of malicious activity that dates back to 2023. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20127 (CVSS score: 10.0), allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to bypass authentication and obtain

Cisco enhances security for enterprise AI adoption

Cisco announced a suite of capabilities to help enterprises adopt agentic AI with confidence, combining agent protection, interaction governance, and resilient connectivity for AI-driven workflows. As organizations move from AI assistants to autonomous agents that use tools and data across hybrid environments, security teams need to strengthen agentic defenses, govern agent interactions with enterprise systems…