By Ionut Arghire
Publication Date: 2026-03-05 08:50:00
Cisco on Wednesday announced fixes for 50 vulnerabilities across its products, including 48 affecting Firewall ASA, Secure FMC, and Secure FTD appliances.
Cisco released a March 2026 bundled publication containing 25 security advisories that describe the security defects affecting its enterprise networking products, including two advisories detailing critical-severity flaws.
The first of them, tracked as CVE-2026-20079 (CVSS score of 10/10), is described as an authentication bypass in the web interface of Cisco Secure FMC software.
Successful exploitation of the bug allows attackers to execute arbitrary scripts on vulnerable deployments and gain root access to the underlying OS.
“This vulnerability is due to an improper system process that is created at boot time. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted HTTP requests to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute a variety of scripts and commands that allow…
