The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added an exploited N-able vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, giving federal agencies three days to patch a flaw that could let attackers reach managed service provider (MSP) customers.
Attackers exploiting the flaw can gain “full administrative access to an N-central console,”
Tracked as CVE-2026-18577 (8.2 CVSSv4), N-able disclosed the vulnerability affecting N-central on Sunday, noting that it was exploited as of July 31.
MSPs use N-central to manage customer systems from a single dashboard, and successful exploitation can hand an attacker administrative access to the console.
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Source: The Register
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