{"id":239569,"date":"2026-06-25T02:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/mandiant-reveals-how-cisco-sd-wan-zero-day-attacks-gained-root-access"},"modified":"2026-06-25T02:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:19:13","slug":"mandiant-reveals-how-cisco-sd-wan-zero-day-attacks-gained-root-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/mandiant-reveals-how-cisco-sd-wan-zero-day-attacks-gained-root-access","title":{"rendered":"Mandiant reveals how Cisco SD-WAN zero-day attacks gained root access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mandiant-reveals-how-cisco-sd-wan-zero-day-attacks-gained-root-access.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New details have been revealed on how hackers exploited a Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026\u201320245 in zero-day attacks to create rogue root accounts on targeted devices.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sec.cloudapps.cisco.com\/security\/center\/content\/CiscoSecurityAdvisory\/cisco-sa-sdwan-privesc-4uxFrdzx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CVE-2026\u201320245<\/a> vulnerability is a high-severity command injection flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (vManage), Controller (vSmart), and Validator (vBond) that allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root by uploading a crafted file.<\/p>\n<p>Cisco said the vulnerability stemmed from insufficient validation of user-supplied input and could be exploited by authenticated attackers with local access to affected devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New details have been revealed on how hackers exploited a Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026\u201320245 in zero-day attacks to create rogue root accounts on targeted devices. The CVE-2026\u201320245 vulnerability is a high-severity command injection flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (vManage), Controller (vSmart), and Validator (vBond) that allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}