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Cisco plugs critical flaws in small business routers

February 3, 2022

Cisco has patched 14 vulnerabilities affecting some of its Small Business RV Series routers, the worst of which may allow attackers to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution or execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system.

“The Cisco PSIRT is aware that proof-of-concept exploit code is available for several of the vulnerabilities that are described in this advisory,” the company said in the accompanying security advisory. Luckily, the PoCs aren’t public – Cisco (mostly) refers to the exploits used by security researchers to “pwn” the Cisco RV340 router at the Pwn2Own hacking contest held in Austin, Texas, in November 2021.

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