A Cisco’s Smart Install protocol (CVE-2018-0171), first patched in 2018, remains a pervasive threat to global network infrastructure due to widespread misconfigurations and exploitation by state-sponsored threat actors. The flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on Cisco switches and routers via exposed Smart Install Client services, enabling configuration theft, credential harvesting, and firmware […]

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