
Cisco FMC CVE-2026-20079: Pre-Auth Root RCE Patch Guide
CVE-2026-20079 in Cisco FMC lets attackers get root without credentials. Sandworm and Qilin are already inside. Patch to FMC 7.0.0 before Sept 12.
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13 results for “Cisco”

CVE-2026-20079 in Cisco FMC lets attackers get root without credentials. Sandworm and Qilin are already inside. Patch to FMC 7.0.0 before Sept 12.

August 2026 Patch Tuesday: 421 CVEs including a CVSS 9.8 wormable DNS RCE and SharePoint actively exploited by ransomware. 5 patches to apply right now.

Cisco FMC static credential CVE-2026-20316 gives unauthenticated attackers access to your firewall manager and chains with CVSS 10.0 CVE-2026-20079 for root. CISA deadline: August 1.

FSB Center 16 steals router configs from energy, finance, and government networks globally using default SNMP strings and CVE-2018-0171.

UAT-7810 LONGLEASH malware turns Ruckus routers into covert Chinese spy relay nodes, serving 2+ APT groups with 62+ unique backdoor hashes active.

Cisco SD-WAN zero-day CVE-2026-20245 confirmed actively exploited with no patch. Mandiant found root access attacks on all deployment types. Mitigations inside.

Cisco SD-WAN authentication bypass CVE-2026-20182 scores CVSS 10.0 with CISA KEV status and active exploitation by UAT-8616. No workaround, patch now.

FIRESTARTER backdoor persists on Cisco ASA past patches, 6+ months undetected. Plus BlueHammer zero-day and 8 CISA KEV additions this week.

Cisco SD-WAN Manager CVE-2026-20133 chains with 2 more CVEs to expose credentials unauthenticated, 500+ devices reachable. CISA deadline was today.

Two unpatched Windows LPE zero-days are actively exploited with no patch. Plus Payouts King QEMU ransomware, CISA's 6 new KEVs, and Cisco 9.9 flaws.

Cisco Talos and Trend Micro confirm Qilin ransomware is using BYOVD to systematically disable 300+ EDR products before deploying ransomware. Here's the full attack chain and what to do about it.

CVE-2024-20353 and CVE-2024-20359 are two Cisco ASA and FTD zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the ArcaneDoor espionage campaign by a suspected Chinese state-sponsored actor. The flaws enabled persistent backdoor implants (Line Dancer and Line Runner) on perimeter VPN devices protecting government and critical infrastructure networks across multiple countries. First exploitation observed in November 2023, five months before public disclosure.

CVE-2023-20198 is a critical unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability in Cisco IOS XE software's web UI feature. Exploited as a zero-day before Cisco published any advisory, attackers used it to create administrator accounts and then chained it with CVE-2023-20273 to deploy a persistent Lua-based implant on over 50,000 network devices. No authentication or user interaction required.