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Sead Fadilpašić

Cisco software flaw could have allowed hackers to change any passwords

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Cisco has released a patch to fix a maximum-severity vulnerability found on the company’s Smart Software Manager On-Prem instances. 

The networking giant had added there are no workarounds for the flaw, so users should patch immediately, as the vulnerability could allow malicious actors to change the password of any user, administrators included, which could, in some scenarios, result in data theft, and possibly even ransomware attacks.

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