CVE-2026-20359

Published: Aug 19, 2026Modified: Aug 20, 2026

9.9

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability: 3.1 / Impact: 6.0

Source: psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)

Description

As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Crosswork 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 trackled by CVE-2026-20359 are related to insufficiently protected credentials issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-522.

Related CWEs

CWE-522

Insufficiently Protected Credentials

The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.

References (2)

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-crosswork-UzDTU9Vh

Source: psirt@cisco.com

https://www.cve.org/Media/News/item/blog/2026/06/16/Preserving-Vulnerability-Level-Identification

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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