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Mandiant reveals how Cisco SD-WAN zero-day attacks gained root access
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.
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Mandiant detailed a zero‑day campaign that leveraged CVE‑2026‑20245, a high‑severity command‑injection flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD‑WAN components (vManage, vSmart and vBond). By uploading a crafted file, authenticated attackers could execute arbitrary commands as root, enabling them to create rogue root accounts on the compromised devices. The report explains how the vulnerability was used to gain persistent privileged access across targeted SD‑WAN infrastructure.
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