Cisco warns of critical flaws allowing Nexus switch takeover
Cisco released security advisories for five critical vulnerabilities in its NX-OS data center network operating system that could be exploited to run arbitrary code with root privileges on Nexus switches.
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Affected technology: Cisco networking & security
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