CVE-2026-20318CWE-20

CVE-2026-20318

Critical · published August 19, 2026

CVSS v3.1
9.6
EPSS
0%
Percentile
37.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
9.6 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00441 · 37.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
Published
2026-08-19T21:18Z
References (2)
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-csw1-shSvndWP · [email protected]https://www.cve.org/Media/News/item/blog/2026/06/16/Preserving-Vulnerability-Level-Identification · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 AUG 16:19Z
    Cisco Secure Workload Software Security Hardening Release August 2026 - Improper Input Validation Vulnerabilities
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