Cisco SD-WAN zero-day exploited to create rogue root accounts (opens in new tab)
Mandiant has detailed a sophisticated attack chain targeting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager devices at a communications service provider. The threat actors exploited CVE-2026-20245, a high-severity command injection vulnerability, to escalate privileges after gaining initial access to the management platform. This flaw allowed authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands with root-level permissions by uploading a specially crafted CSV file. <a href="
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