{"id":225434,"date":"2026-03-18T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/ciscos-latest-vulnerability-spree-has-a-more-troubling-pattern-underneath\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:45:11","slug":"ciscos-latest-vulnerability-spree-has-a-more-troubling-pattern-underneath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/ciscos-latest-vulnerability-spree-has-a-more-troubling-pattern-underneath\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco\u2019s latest vulnerability spree has a more troubling pattern underneath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisco-firewall-sd-wan-vulnerabilities-exploited\/\">Cisco\u2019s latest vulnerability spree has a more troubling pattern underneath<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisco-firewall-sd-wan-vulnerabilities-exploited\/\">https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisco-firewall-sd-wan-vulnerabilities-exploited\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-18 17:32:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cyberscoop.com\">cyberscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cisco customers have confronted a flood of actively exploited vulnerabilities affecting the vendor\u2019s network edge software since late February, and researchers say that five of the nine vulnerabilities Cisco disclosed in its firewalls and SD-WAN systems over the past three weeks have already been exploited in the wild.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Attackers exploited a pair of these defects \u2014 zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco SD-WANs \u2014 for at least three years before the vendor and authorities discovered and issued warnings about the threat. Cisco disclosed an additional five SD-WAN vulnerabilities that same day, and three of those defects have since been confirmed actively exploited as well.<\/p>\n<p>Weaknesses lurking in Cisco security products don\u2019t end there. Amazon Threat Intelligence on Wednesday said one of the two max-severity defects Cisco reported in its firewall management software earlier this month has been actively exploited by Interlock ransomware since Jan. 26, more than a month before those vulnerabilities were publicly disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Some organizations, officials and members of the security community at large have missed widening risks as more of the defects come under attack. The flurry of Cisco SD-WAN and firewall vulnerabilities includes defects with low CVSS ratings, zero-days and others that were determined actively exploited after disclosure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are not random bugs in low-value software. These are management-plane and control-plane weaknesses in devices at the network edge, which often function as trust anchors in enterprise environments,\u201d Douglas McKee, director of vulnerability intelligence at Rapid7, told CyberScoop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you compromise SD-WAN or firewall management, you\u2019re landing on policy, visibility, routing, segmentation, and, in many cases, administrative trust over a large swath of the environment,\u201d he added. \u201cAttackers know that and, when they find a pre-auth path into those systems, especially one that can be chained&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisco-firewall-sd-wan-vulnerabilities-exploited\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco\u2019s latest vulnerability spree has a more troubling pattern underneath https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisco-firewall-sd-wan-vulnerabilities-exploited\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-18 17:32:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-1127349614.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-225434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225436,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225434\/revisions\/225436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}