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The news was confirmed by the company itself, which recently released a new patch to address the problem.

The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-20101 and comes with a severity score of 9.8.

Hardcoded credentials

Hardcoded login credentials arent exactly a new thing.

Developers sometimes use them to make logging in easier during development.

The problem is when the devs forget to remove them before shipping the product out.

Other releases were not vulnerable, it was said.

The good news is that Cisco is under the impression that no one managed to abuse the flaw yet.

That is why keeping software up-to-date is one of the most important cybersecurity practices today.

Having endpoint protection solutions, as well as firewalls, installed, wouldnt hurt, either.

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