Cisco has warned customers about a critical privilege escalation vulnerability that has been exploited against Cisco CloudCenter Orchestrator (CCO) systems.

Cisco CloudCenter is a hybrid cloud management platform with two primary components: CloudCenter Manager, the interface utilized by users and administrators, and CloudCenter Orchestrator, which automates application deployment and infrastructure provisioning and configuration. CCO was previously a product of CliQr Technologies, which Cisco acquired earlier this year.