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CVE-2026-20245, the 7th Cisco SD-WAN vulnerability exploited in 2026, was used for months prior to its disclosure and patching. The post Cisco SD-WAN Zero-Day Exploited Months Before Patching appeared first on SecurityWeek.
New details have been revealed on how hackers exploited a Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-20245 in zero-day attacks to create rogue root accounts on targeted devices. [...]
Researchers believe rogue peering was used to connect to the victim's SD-WAN devices to gain admin privileges and root-level access.
Written by: Chester Sng, Pete Boonyakarn, Logeswaran Nadarajan Introduction In early 2026, Mandiant identified a threat actor targeting SD-WAN infrastructure at a service provider. After gaining initial access, the threat actor exploited a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-20245) in Cisco Catalyst SD
The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-20245 and it can allow arbitrary command execution as root, but no patch yet. The post Cisco Warns of 7th SD-WAN Zero-Day Exploited in 2026 appeared first on SecurityWeek.
On Thursday, Cisco warned of a high-severity, unpatched zero-day in the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (tracked as CVE-2026-20245) actively exploited in attacks enabling root privilege escalation. [...]
