{"id":247333,"date":"2026-05-15T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/attackers-exploit-critical-flaw-in-cisco-catalyst-sd-wan-controller\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T08:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:30:31","slug":"attackers-exploit-critical-flaw-in-cisco-catalyst-sd-wan-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/attackers-exploit-critical-flaw-in-cisco-catalyst-sd-wan-controller\/","title":{"rendered":"Attackers exploit critical flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Attackers exploit critical flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/attackers-exploit-critical-flaw-in-cisco-catalyst-sd-wan-controller\/820368\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-15 12:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.cybersecuritydive.com<\/a><\/p>\n

A critical vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller is facing active exploitation almost immediately after security researchers publicly disclosed the flaw.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The vulnerability, tracked as <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>CVE-2026-20182<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>, is an authentication bypass vulnerability, which has a severity score of 10, which is considered the highest potential rating. The flaw could allow an attacker to circumvent authentication procedures and gain administrative privileges on an affected server.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Cisco on Thursday <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>released an advisory<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> for the newly discovered vulnerability and issued security updates to address the flaw, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>added the CVE<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Cisco Talos, the threat intelligence arm of Cisco,\u00a0said the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>current exploitation activity<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> thus far has been limited and they are clustering the activity to an actor tracked as UAT-8616. They warned the attacker had been involved in exploitation of another recently disclosed vulnerability, which is designated as CVE-2026-20127.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Researchers at Rapid7 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>discovered the latest vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> while investigating CVE-2026-20127, which was being exploited by the same hackers. This latest vulnerability affects the \u201cvdaemon\u201d service over DTLS, which Rapid7 said is the same service that contained the earlier flaw.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Rapid7 cautioned, however, that the newly discovered vulnerability is not a patch bypass of CVE-2026-20127, but a different issue that is located in the same part of the daemon networking stack. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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