Cisco has released nine security advisories addressing multiple vulnerabilities, including one critical and two high severity advisories affecting Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Cisco NX-OS, Cisco Expressway, Cisco IOS, Cisco IOS XE, Cisco IOS XR, Secure Email and Web Manager, Secure Email Gateway, and Secure Web Appliance.
The critical vulnerability affects Cisco ISE and Cisco ISE Passive Identity Connector, software which facilitates endpoint management. The vulnerability could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands and elevate privileges on an affected device, provided that the attacker has valid read-only administrative credentials.
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