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Cisco patches another actively exploited SD-WAN zero-day (CVE-2026-20182)

ID: b6c4daca-9bdf-5b08-92c8-838d15d31b6a

STIX ID: report--b6c4daca-9bdf-5b08-92c8-838d15d31b6a

Feed Name: Help Net Security

Threat Score
82/100

Date Published: 2026-05-15

Date Updated: 2026-05-15

Author: Zeljka Zorz

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A zero‑day authentication bypass (CVE-2026-20182) in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller/Manager has been observed exploited in the wild by a sophisticated actor dubbed UAT-8616; the flaw lets unauthenticated attackers become an authenticated DTLS peer, inject an SSH key into the vmanage-admin account, and then access NETCONF to reconfigure the SD‑WAN. Cisco has released fixes, urged customers to upgrade and review logs (look for "Accepted publickey for vmanage-admin" from unknown IPs), and researchers (Rapid7, Cisco Talos) have published related analysis and IOCs, noting additional related CVEs and webshells like "XenShell."

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