CVE-2026-20271
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco IOS XE Software engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-20271 are related to insufficient control flow management issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-691.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 8.6
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS probability
- 0.28%
- CWE
- CWE-691
- Published
- 2026-08-05
- Last modified
- 2026-08-14
Affected products
- Cisco Cisco IOS XE Software
- Cisco Cisco IOS XE Software
- Cisco Cisco IOS XE Software
- Cisco Cisco IOS XE Software
- Cisco Cisco IOS XE Software
- Cisco Cisco IOS XE Software
- Cisco Cisco IOS XE Software
- Cisco Cisco IOS XE Software
Weakness type
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