Cisco Patches Vulnerability in URWB Access Points
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Cisco addresses critical vulnerability in URWB access points. The company has patched a severe security flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-20418, that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute commands with root privileges on certain Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) access points. This vulnerability arises from improper input validation in the web-based management interface and affects specific models only when running vulnerable software with URWB mode enabled. Cisco’s security team has not found evidence of active exploitation or publicly available exploit code for this issue.