CVE-2026-20231

Published Aug 19, 2026

Last updated 2 months ago

CVSS critical 9.9
sca

Overview

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.
Source
psirt@cisco.com
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
9.9
Impact score
6
Exploitability score
3.1
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
CRITICAL

Weaknesses

psirt@cisco.com
CWE-74

Social media

Hype score
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  1. Cisco Secure Workloadに複数の重大(Critical)な脆弱性。CVE-2026-20315とCVE-2026-20317はCVSSスコア10で、前者が不適切なアクセス制御、後者が認証不備。CVE-2026-20231は同9.9のOSコマンドインジェクション。CVE-2026-20318は同9.6の

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References

Sources include official advisories and independent security research.