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Cisco Patches Another SD-WAN Zero-Day, the Sixth Exploited in 2026

The zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-20182, has been exploited in targeted attacks by a sophisticated threat actor identified as UAT-8616. The post Cisco Patches Another SD-WAN Zero-Day, the Sixth Exploited in 2026 appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Cisco on Thursday announced the availability of patches for yet another critical SD-WAN zero-day vulnerability that has been exploited in attacks. It is the sixth SD-WAN flaw whose exploitation came to light in 2026. 

The new SD-WAN zero-day is tracked as CVE-2026-20182, and it has been described by Cisco as an authentication bypass vulnerability that can allow a remote attacker to gain admin privileges on the targeted system via specially crafted packets. 

The vulnerability affects the peering authentication mechanism in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller (formerly SD-WAN vSmart) and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (formerly SD-WAN vManage).

Source: https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-patches-another-sd-wan-zero-day-the-sixth-exploited-in-2026/

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