CISA’s Comedy of Errors: Cisco and Windows Vulnerabilities Take Center Stage
CISA has issued a warning for US federal agencies to secure systems against vulnerabilities in Cisco and Windows systems. The agency’s advice? Patch it up before your network becomes the next star in a hacker’s horror flick. After all, you don’t want your system to be the next celebrity in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
Hot Take:
Oh, the joys of patching! It’s like a never-ending game of Whack-a-Mole, except the moles are cybercriminals and the mallet is a software update. Federal agencies, better get your patching party hats on because Cisco and Windows are the latest “guests” on CISA’s VIP vulnerability list. Time to secure the gates before the cyber clowns crash the party!
Key Points:
- CISA warns US federal agencies about vulnerabilities in Cisco and Windows systems.
- CVE-2023-20118 allows command execution on specific Cisco VPN routers.
- CVE-2018-8639 is a Win32k elevation of privilege flaw affecting Windows systems.
- Agencies have until March 23 to patch these vulnerabilities.
- Microsoft and Cisco advisories remain unchanged following CISA’s alert.
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