Vulnerabilities Affected Millions of Cisco Switches, Routers and devices

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Critical Vulnerabilities Affected Millions of Cisco Switches, Routers, IP Phones and Cameras. Researchers discovered 5 critical zero-day vulnerabilities (dubbed CDPwn)  in Cisco Discovery Protocol that are used in multiple Cisco products such as Routers, Switches, IP phones, Cameras and more. Cisco Discovery Protocol is also known as CDP is the Cisco proprietary Layer 2 (Data Link Layer) network protocol and is virtually implemented in Cisco products including switches, routers, IP phones, and cameras to discover the information about the Cisco equipment. Four of the five vulnerabilities are remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities that…

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