Cisco Roundup Six servers have been compromised via SaltStack vulnerabilities, according to a company statement.
The compromised systems acted as salt-master servers for versions 1.2 and 1.3 of the Cisco Virtual product Internet Routing Lab Personal Edition (VIRL-PE).
Of course, all of the company's customer facilities on these Cisco servers are affected.
SaltStack is a tool for managing software running on remote systems. The app issued security updates in late April for two exploitable vulnerabilities maliciousangry users to gain control over the hosts.
So Cisco tested six VIRL-PE salt-master servers (us-1.virl.info, us-2.virl.info, us-3.virl.info, us-4.virl.info, vsm-us-1 .irl.info and vsm-us-2.virl.info) on May 7, and found that they had been violated.
According to one Publication of the company on May 28:
The Cisco infrastructure maintains the master-salt servers used with Cisco VIRL-PE. These servers were upgraded on May 7, 2020. Cisco found that the salt-master servers serving versions 1.2 and 1.3 of Cisco VIRL-PE had been compromised.
Cisco says it has fixed two critical vulnerabilities in SaltStack (CVE-2020-11651 and CVE-2020-11652) on the VIRL-PE platform and Cisco Modeling Labs Corporate Edition (CML).
To mention that Cisco hardware and infrastructure is used by the Greek State but also by many large companies and organizations.
Meanwhile, Cisco acquired monitoring company ThousandEyes in a deal believed to be worth a total of $1 billion. The San Francisco company will be merged with Cisco's new business unit Networking Services.
