Security News > 2022 > August > Cisco Business Routers Found Vulnerable to Critical Remote Hacking Flaws

Cisco on Wednesday rolled out patches to address eight security vulnerabilities, three of which could be weaponized by an unauthenticated attacker to gain remote code execution or cause a denial-of-service condition on affected devices.

The most critical of the flaws impact Cisco Small Business RV160, RV260, RV340, and RV345 Series routers.

"An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted HTTP input to an affected device," Cisco said in an advisory.

"A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code as the root user on the underlying operating system or cause the device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition."

A second shortcoming relates to a command injection vulnerability residing in the routers' web filter database update feature, which could be exploited by an adversary to inject and execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with root privileges.

The company offered no workarounds to remediate the issues, adding there is no evidence of these vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild.

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