Number: AV20-018
Date: 23 January 2020
On 22 January 2020 Cisco released a number of security advisories to address vulnerabilities affecting multiple products. Of note, a vulnerability in the Cisco Firepower Management Center tracked as CVE-2019-16028, a vulnerability in Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN Software tracked as CVE-2019-1950 and a vulnerability in Cisco IOS XR Software tracked as CVE-2019-16018.
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow a remote actor to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary actions with administrative privileges on an affected device, log in using default credentials with elevated privileges and take complete control of the device or cause a denial of service (DoS ) condition in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) service.
The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the Cisco Security Advisories and Alerts webpage at the link below and apply the necessary updates:
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/publicationListing.x
Note to Readers
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