Nearly 50,000 Cisco firewall devices worldwide are currently exposed to significant security risks following the disclosure of three critical vulnerabilities in Cisco’s Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) products.
Statistics from the Shadowserver Foundation have highlighted the scale of this problem, revealing that thousands of these devices remain directly accessible via the internet and have yet to receive urgent security patches.
The vulnerabilities, which were publicly announced on September 25, prompted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to issue a rare emergency patching directive, reflecting the severity and potential impact of these flaws.
The United States leads in terms of exposure, with more than 19,000 vulnerable devices identified, outpacing every other country. The United Kingdom follows with over 2,700 exposed units, while Japan, Germany, and Russia also have substantial numbers.
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