Cisco has released 15 security advisories addressing multiple vulnerabilities, including one critical and two high severity vulnerabilities affecting various products. The critical vulnerability affects Cisco Unified Industrial Wireless Software for Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul Access Point, a software that uses wireless backhaul technology to connect appliances.
The vulnerability enables command injection, which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on the underlying operating system. Two high severity vulnerabilities affect Cisco Enterprise Chat and Email, which offers a blended agent for handling of web chat, email and voice interactions, and Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller, Cisco’s network management platform for all Nexus Operating System enabled deployments.
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