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San Francisco, Oct 20 (IANS) Cyber criminals have exploited an unpatched and critical zero-day vulnerability in Cisco’s networking software to compromise tens of thousands of devices.
As the number of exposed devices tops 74,000, according to some reports, security pros say short of a patch, the workaround of disabling the HTTP feature in IOS XE is the best bet for now.
An unknown threat actor is exploiting the vulnerability to create admin accounts.
No patch or workaround is currently available for the maximum severity flaw, which allows attackers to gain complete administrator privilege on affected devices remotely and without authentication.
A 10/10 flaw gives attackers the keys to the kingdom