{"id":243843,"date":"2026-09-10T01:17:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T06:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/cisco-confirms-cve-2026-20079-secure-fmc-flaw-exploited-in-attacks"},"modified":"2026-09-10T01:17:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T06:17:28","slug":"cisco-confirms-cve-2026-20079-secure-fmc-flaw-exploited-in-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/cisco-confirms-cve-2026-20079-secure-fmc-flaw-exploited-in-attacks","title":{"rendered":"Cisco confirms CVE-2026\u201320079 Secure FMC flaw exploited in attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cisco-confirms-cve-2026-20079-secure-fmc-flaw-exploited-in-attacks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cisco has confirmed that a maximum-severity authentication bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026\u201320079 in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software is being actively exploited in attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability has a maximum CVSS score of 10.0 and allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to bypass authentication and execute scripts and commands as root on vulnerable devices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn August 2026, the Cisco PSIRT became aware of active exploitation of this vulnerability,\u201d Cisco updated its <a href=\"https:\/\/sec.cloudapps.cisco.com\/security\/center\/content\/CiscoSecurityAdvisory\/cisco-sa-onprem-fmc-authbypass-5JPp45V2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CVE-2026\u201320079 advisory<\/a> to say on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco has confirmed that a maximum-severity authentication bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026\u201320079 in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software is being actively exploited in attacks. The vulnerability has a maximum CVSS score of 10.0 and allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to bypass authentication and execute scripts and commands as root on vulnerable devices. \u201cIn August [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243843","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=243843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}