CVE-2026-20318

critical Cisco
CVSS v3 Base Score
9.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
0.3%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 73% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Published: August 19, 2026 (18 days ago)
Last Modified: August 20, 2026
Vendor: Cisco
Source: NVD

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-2026-20318 are related to improper input validation issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-20.

CWE

CWE-20

References

🔗 sec.cloudapps.cisco.com 🔗 www.cve.org