Cisco has fixed 18 high-impact vulnerabilities affecting several of its security offerings and is advising administrators to test and implement the offered security updates as soon as possible.
“Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access, gain elevated privileges, execute arbitrary commands, or cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device,” the company said.
About the vulnerabilities
The vulnerabilities affect Cisco ASA (Adaptive Security Appliance) Software, Cisco FTD (Firepower Threat Defense Software) and Cisco FMC (Firepower Management Center) Software.
While DoS flaws might generally not be that big of a deal, these newly patched ones all affect Cisco’s Adaptive Security Appliance, giving attackers many avenues to temporarily put them out of commission, i.e. opening enterprise networks to threat ..
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