CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-20231

9.9 CRITICAL Published 2026-08-19 Modified 2026-08-20 Official page ↗

Status: Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-08-19
Last modified: 2026-08-20
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected]): 9.9 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses: CWE-74

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-2026-20231 are related to improper neutralization of special elements issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-74.

Weakness · CWE (1)

CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component weakness

References

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-csw1-shSvndWP sec.cloudapps.cisco.com
https://www.cve.org/Media/News/item/blog/2026/06/16/Preserving-Vulnerability-Level-Identification www.cve.org

CVE-2026-20231

Description

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Weakness · CWE (1)

References