VulnerabilityAwaiting Analysis

CVE-2026-20317

This review resulted in a software hardening release that addresses multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities.

CRITICAL 10.0EPSS 0.44%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.44%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Secure Workload engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in a software hardening release that addresses multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-20317 are related to improper authentication issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-287.

CVSS 3.1: 10.0 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 0.44% probability · 37th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-287
Source: psirt@cisco.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.