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CVE-2025-20393Unauthenticated RCE in Cisco AsyncOS Spam QuarantineExploited in the wild

Cisco revealed that a newly identified China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT), "UAT-9686," had been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Cisco email security appliances that run on its AsyncOS software. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-20393, has since been assigned a "critical" 10 out of 10 severity rating in the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), and it has not yet been patched.

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Dec 18, 2025

Cisco Zero-Day Siege: Chinese Group UAT-9686 Deploys ‘Aqua’ Malware via CVSS 10 Root Exploit

Aqua is a malware deployed by the Chinese threat group UAT-9686, leveraging a critical (CVSS 10) root exploit in Cisco systems.

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