Cisco Firewall Management Center Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel Vulnerability
Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software and Cisco Security Cloud Control (SCC) Firewall Management contain an authentication Bypass using an alternate path or channel vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and execute script files on an affected device to obtain root access to the underlying operating system.
Read at CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Vendor
- Cisco
- Product
- Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) and Security Cloud Control (SCC) Firewall Management
- CISA KEV
- listed
- Exploitation
- observed in the wild
- Fix
- available
- Exposure class
- Edge / VPN / firewall
Why it ranks 75 (Critical)
- CISA KEV listed
- Exposed product class: edge / VPN / firewall
- Widely deployed vendor product (Cisco)
- Covered by 3 independent sources
- Fix available
- Recency: items published within 24 hours gain 15, within 72 hours 6, within 7 days 2.
Links
- CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (nvd.nist.gov)
- CVE-2026-20079 on this site · NVD · CVE.org · Vulnpedia · KEV
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