
CVE-2023-20198: Cisco IOS XE Zero-Day, 50,000 Devices
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.


