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CISA added CVE-2026-20316 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on July 29, citing active exploitation. The high-severity flaw in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center allows unauthenticated remote login via hardcoded credentials embedded in the web interface, affecting versions 7.0 through 10.0.
Check Point's SmartConsole GUI admin panel has an actively exploited zero-day authentication bypass (CVE-2026-16232, CVSS 9.3) that grants full admin access to Security Management servers; a patch has been released. Cisco's Secure FMC also faces an actively exploited zero-day involving static credentials.
🤖 CVE-2026-20316 (KEV): Cisco FMC zero-day actively exploited. Unauthenticated attacker can access devices via static credentials.
Cisco Talos confirmed on September 10, 2026, that CVE-2026-20079 and CVE-2026-20316, maximum-severity vulnerabilities in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC), were being actively exploited by state-sponsored actors, ransomware gangs, and financially motivated threat groups. CISA added CVE-2026-20079 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list on September 9.
Cisco disclosed two separate high-severity vulnerabilities in Secure Firewall Management Center software: CVE-2026-20079 (authentication bypass, first released March 4) and CVE-2026-20316 (static credential flaw actively exploited in zero-day attacks). Both require urgent patching.
Between September 14–16, 2026, Cisco disclosed and patched CVE-2026-76461, a critical SQL-injection vulnerability in AsyncOS software for Cisco Secure Email Gateway that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. Attackers were actively exploiting the flaw before the patch was released.
Between September 8 and 11, 2026, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added six critical vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, including flaws in Microsoft Windows, GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, and N-able N-central that allow remote code execution and privilege escalation. Active exploitation of these vulnerabilities has been documented.
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CISA added CVE-2025-68686, a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS that exposes sensitive information, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue. The flaw allows remote unauthenticated attackers to bypass security measures.