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Cisco warns of FMC static credential flaw exploited in zero-day attacks

Summary by BleepingComputer
Cisco is warning that a high-severity Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) static credential vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20316, was actively exploited in zero-day attacks to gain unauthorized access to vulnerable devices.

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Cisco warns of a zero-day vulnerability in the Secure Firewall Management Center. CVE-2026-20316, which is rated as a high-level vulnerability, affects Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center software, FMC for short, which centrally manage multiple firewall rules, updates, and protocols through administrators. The cause is a low-right account built into the software that has fixed access data. According to Cisco, an unauthenticated remote attack…

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Cisco issued an urgent security alert after confirming the active exploitation of two critical vulnerabilities at the Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (Secure FMC). Identifyed as CVE-2026-20316 and CVE-2026-20079, the failures allow invaders to bypass authentication mechanisms and explore static credentials present in the system, compromising one of the most important components of the corporate security infrastructure. The manufacturer r…

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Attackers are permanently misuseing programmed access data in Cisco's firewall management software. Updates should help against this.

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BleepingComputer broke the news in Melville, United States on Wednesday, July 29, 2026.
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