Cisco patches critical SD-WAN Manager auth bypass under active exploit
Cisco disclosed CVE-2026-76504, a CVSS 9.8 authentication bypass in Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (formerly vManage) caused by improper URI-encoding handling. The flaw is being actively exploited and has no workaround; only an upgrade closes it.
- CVSS 9.8: unauthenticated bypass requiring no user interaction
- Flaw stems from mishandled URI encoding in the session-login API
- Cisco confirmed active exploitation in September 2026
- Hunt logs for /%6a_security_check paths and viptela-reserved- accounts
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