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title: Hackers Exploit Critical Cisco Zero-Day Affecting Unified Communications Systems
description: Cisco patches critical zero-day flaw in communication systems, urging urgent updates to prevent remote exploits and privilege escalation.
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# Hackers Exploit Critical Cisco Zero-Day Affecting Unified Communications Systems

Cisco patches critical zero-day flaw in communication systems, urging urgent updates to prevent remote exploits and privilege escalation.

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Cisco patched a critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-20045) being actively exploited by hackers targeting unified communications products. The flaw affects Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Session Management Edition, Unity Connection, and Webex Calling systems. Attackers can exploit the vulnerability remotely without authentication by sending crafted HTTP requests to management interfaces. Successful attacks grant user-level access that can escalate to root privileges on the underlying operating system. CISA added the vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, giving federal agencies until February 11 to patch. Hunter shows roughly 1,300 internet-exposed Cisco Unified CM instances, with nearly half located in the United States. **Source:** [Security Week](https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-targeting-cisco-unified-cm-zero-day/)

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