{"id":246353,"date":"2026-05-15T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/cisa-adds-cisco-sd-wan-cve-2026-20182-to-kev-after-admin-access-exploits\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:00:08","slug":"cisa-adds-cisco-sd-wan-cve-2026-20182-to-kev-after-admin-access-exploits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/cisa-adds-cisco-sd-wan-cve-2026-20182-to-kev-after-admin-access-exploits\/","title":{"rendered":"CISA Adds Cisco SD-WAN CVE-2026-20182 to KEV After Admin Access Exploits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/cisa-adds-cisco-sd-wan-cve-2026-20182.html\">CISA Adds Cisco SD-WAN CVE-2026-20182 to KEV After Admin Access Exploits<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/cisa-adds-cisco-sd-wan-cve-2026-20182.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/cisa-adds-cisco-sd-wan-cve-2026-20182.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-15 01:28:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thehackernews.com\">thehackernews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"p-author\">\ue804<span class=\"author\">Ravie Lakshmanan<\/span>\ue802<span class=\"author\">May 15, 2026<\/span><\/span><span class=\"p-tags\">Vulnerability \/ Credential Theft<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The U.S.Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a newly disclosed vulnerability impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to remediate the issue by May 17, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability is a critical authentication bypass tracked as <strong>CVE-2026-20182<\/strong>. It&#8217;s rated 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system, indicating maximum severity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller and Manager contain an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and obtain administrative privileges on an affected system,&#8221; CISA said.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate advisory, Cisco attributed the active exploitation of CVE-2026-20182 with high confidence to UAT-8616, the same cluster behind the weaponization of CVE-2026-20127 to gain unauthorized access to SD-WAN systems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;UAT-8616 performed similar post-compromise actions after successfully exploiting CVE-2026-20182, as was observed in the exploitation of CVE-2026-20127 by the same threat actor,&#8221; Cisco Talos said. &#8220;UAT-8616 attempted to add SSH keys, modify NETCONF configurations, and escalate to root privileges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s assessed that the infrastructure used by UAT-8616 to carry out exploitation and post-compromise activities overlaps with Operational Relay Box (ORB) networks, with the cybersecurity company also observing multiple threat clusters exploiting CVE-2026-20133, CVE-2026-20128, and CVE-2026-20122 beginning March 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The three vulnerabilities, when chained together, can allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to gain unauthorized access to the device. They were added to the CISA&#8217;s KEV catalog last month.<\/p>\n<p>The activity has been found to leverage publicly available proof-of-concept exploit code to deploy web shells on hacked systems, allowing the operators to run arbitrary bash commands. One&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/cisa-adds-cisco-sd-wan-cve-2026-20182.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CISA Adds Cisco SD-WAN CVE-2026-20182 to KEV After Admin Access Exploits https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/cisa-adds-cisco-sd-wan-cve-2026-20182.html Publish Date: 2026-05-15&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg4XG5z00sF3uL0ZbhtZNiergQ9QVaZJydwP1pXEdPh2o29mwvTS2nPKRbxHftwnEJ1pvxMQS9TQknWqbovk-vW7BRPHUSsBhN4yL2iOwJnlmK7lzCdW9tJbKtKLbnfSZSWgfGlWQ6HO807gjR6dP61VylH1zxWtvfo3c7ui8aBecSjVz5miCG0jHoa8rUA\/s1600\/cisa-exploit.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[90,57,34,27],"class_list":["post-246353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cve","tag-security","tag-threat-actor","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246353"}],"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=246353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246358,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246353\/revisions\/246358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}