Vulnerability intelligence
CVE-2026-20317
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 Score
10
Critical
EPSS — Exploit Probability
0.6%
Riskier than 44% of all CVEs · checked 2026-10-03
Exploitation
Not in CISA KEV
KEV does not include every exploited vulnerability
Remediation
unknown
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1 article across 1 outlet · first covered Aug 20, 2026 · latest Aug 20, 2026
Coverage timeline
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CVE-2026-20315 & CVE-2026-20317: Cisco Secure Workload Auth Bypass, Privilege Escalation Hit CVSS 10securityonline.info · Aug 20, 2026