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China-linked Salt Typhoon Exploits Critical Cisco Vulnerability to Target Canadian Telecom

The Hacker Newsby @TheHackersNewsJun 25, 2025 · 16:57 UTC (Jun 25, 2025)2 min read1

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CVEs: CVE-2023-20198 CVE-2023-20273

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CVE	Vulnerability	CVSS	EPSS	Signals	Published
CVE-2023-20198	Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation in Cisco IOS XE Web UI (Actively Exploited)	10.0	100%	KEV	Oct 16, 2023 KEV Oct 16, 2023
CVE-2023-20273	Authenticated Command Injection (Root) in Cisco IOS XE Web UI	7.2	93%	KEV	Oct 25, 2023 KEV Oct 23, 2023

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 Ravie Lakshmanan  Jun 24, 2025 Cyber Espionage / Chinese Hackers The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security and the U. S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have issued an advisory warning of cyber attacks mounted by the China-linked Salt Typhoon actors to breach major global telecommunications providers as part of a cyber espionage campaign.

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