Cisco’s Critical Security Flaws: Patch Now or Welcome Hackers With Open Arms!
Cisco has patched two critical security flaws in Identity Services Engine (ISE) that could let remote attackers execute arbitrary commands and elevate privileges. With no magical workarounds, users are urged to update their systems pronto. After all, ignoring updates is like leaving the front door open for cyber trick-or-treaters!
Hot Take:
Cisco’s ISE is in the spotlight, and not in a “look at this amazing new feature” kind of way. It’s more of a “whoops, we left the backdoor open and now there’s a raccoon in the kitchen” situation. But fear not! Cisco’s got the pest control—err, patches—you need to shoo away those pesky vulnerabilities before they raid your cookie jar of sensitive data.
Key Points:
- Two critical vulnerabilities were found in Cisco’s Identity Services Engine (ISE).
- CVE-2025-20124 allows for arbitrary command execution as root, with a CVSS score of 9.9.
- CVE-2025-20125 enables an authorization bypass, scoring 9.1 on the CVSS scale.
- Vulnerabilities can be exploited through crafted Java objects or HTTP requests.
- Deloitte researchers discovered these flaws, but no malicious exploitation has been reported yet.
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