Friday, October 18, 2019

IT / Security Director Alert: Cisco Aironet Wi-Fi High-Severity Vulnerability Patch Available

Cisco has issued patches for critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in its Aironet access point devices.

It also issued a slew of additional patches addressing other flaws in its products.

“An exploit could allow the attacker to gain access to the device with elevated privileges,” said Cisco in a Wednesday advisory.

“An exploit could allow the attacker to gain access to the device with elevated privileges,” said Cisco in a Wednesday advisory. "...it could allow the attacker to view sensitive information and replace some options with values of their choosing, including wireless network configuration. It would also allow the attacker to disable the [access point], creating a denial of service (DoS) condition for clients associated with the [access point].” more