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  "title": "Cisco IOS XE web UI zero-days: implants on tens of thousands of devices · updates",
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  "description": "Attackers chained two zero-days in the Cisco IOS XE web UI. CVE-2023-20198 let them create a privilege-15 account, and CVE-2023-20273 let them write a root-level implant. Internet scans soon found implants on tens of thousands of switches and routers.",
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