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#6 The Hacker News general August 12, 2026 at 06:15 UTC

Cisco ASA and FTD Flaw Exploited in the Wild Can Trigger Remote DoS

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

AI Summary

Cisco disclosed CVE-2026-20349 (CVSS 8.6), a zero-day in Secure Firewall ASA and FTD software being actively exploited in the wild to trigger remote denial-of-service crashes via malformed HTTP requests — no authentication required. Organizations relying on Cisco ASA/FTD for perimeter defense should apply patches immediately, as this flaw can be exploited remotely against internet-facing firewall management interfaces.

Relevance score: 84.0/100

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