Vulnerabilities have a high-impact security rating, which means patches and updates had to arrive quickly. The vulnerability with the highest rating, 9.1, was found in the web services interface of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software. If exploited, it would have allowed an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct directory traversal attacks and obtain read and delete access to sensitive files on a targeted system. Such vulnerabilities tend to be a lot more dangerous than others because this kind of Internet of Things (IoT) hardware is usually the gate that offers protection.”]