Oh, *Great*. Another Cisco Fuck-Up.

Right, listen up, you lot. Because some of you are clearly incapable of keeping your networks secure without hand-holding. Cisco ASA firewalls – the ones everyone seems inexplicably attached to – have two zero-day vulnerabilities. Two! Like they couldn’t be bothered to test properly.

Apparently, a Chinese state-sponsored group (because *of course* it is) is actively exploiting these holes since May of this year. They’re using them for initial access and data exfiltration. Shocking. Absolutely shocking. CISA has issued an Emergency Directive – which basically means “Cisco screwed up royally, patch your shit NOW.”

The vulnerabilities are in the web services interface (CVE-2025-XXXX) and the SSL VPN (CVE-2025-YYYY – details are sparse because Cisco is being deliberately vague). Mitigation involves disabling affected features or applying patches. Or, you know, just rip them out and use something that isn’t a constant security nightmare. Your call.

Seriously, if you’re still running vulnerable ASAs in 2025, I have serious questions about your life choices. And your job security. Don’t come crying to me when you get pwned.

Source: The Hacker News

And a Story For You…

I once had to clean up after a company that thought “security through obscurity” was a viable strategy with their Cisco gear. They’d changed every default password to something slightly different, like adding ‘1’ to the end of it. Predictably, they were compromised within 48 hours. Fourteen hours later I was rebuilding servers from backups and questioning my career path. Don’t be that company. Seriously.

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