The hits keep on coming for Cisco vulnerabilities

It’s looking like another tough week (month? year?) for Switchzilla amid reports of new serious vulnerabilities under attack. First up is a server-side request forgery bug in its Unified Communications Manager tracked as CVE-2026-20230. Cisco disclosed and patched this flaw in early June. The comms control platform doesn’t properly validate some HTTP requests, and an attacker could exploit this bug to gain root privileges on a compromised device. At the time, Cisco said that a proof-