Cisco Releases Critical Updates - 20241107001

Overview

Cisco has released multiple updates for products to address a vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Unified Industrial Wireless Software for Cisco Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) Access Points could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform command injection attacks with root privileges on the underlying operating system.

What is vulnerable?

Product(s) Affected	Version(s)	CVE	CVSS	Severity
Cisco Catalyst IW9165D / IW9165E / IW9167E Access Points	All versions below 17.15.1	CVE-2024-20418	10	Critical

What has been observed?

There is no evidence of exploitation affecting Western Australian Government networks at the time of publishing.

Recommendation

The WA SOC recommends administrators apply the solutions as per vendor instructions to all affected devices within expected timeframe of 48 hours... (refer Patch Management):

• Cisco: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-backhaul-ap-cmdinj-R7E28Ecs#vp

Additional References

• CISecurity: https://www.cisecurity.org/advisory/a-vulnerability-in-cisco-unified-industrial-wireless-software-for-ultra-reliable-wireless-backhaul-access-point-could-allow-for-remote-code-execution_2024-123