Cisco patches 48 bugs across firewall products; notes two more SD-WAN flaws exploited

Cisco on March 4 released patches for 48 vulnerabilities in Cisco Secure Firewall ASA, Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) software.Of special note in yesterday’s release were the patches for two 10.0 maximum-severity flaws in Secure FMC software that lets administrators manage Cisco firewalls and configure application control, intrusion prevention, URL filtering, and advanced malware protection.Cisco also pointed out that two more Catalyst SD-WAN Manager flaws were exploited in the wild, news that was updated from the original advisory on Feb. 25.“This comes at a time when global edge infrastructure is under sustained and aggressive attack,” said Gene Moody, Field CTO at Action1. “In the current geopolitical climate, with elevated nation-state activity and rising tensions involving Western interests and war in the Middle East, internet-facing security appliances are first-strike targets.”Related reading:Moody said his team has…