CVE-2026-20326

As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Nexus Dashboard 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-2026-20326 are related to missing authentication for critical function issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-306.

CVSS v3 9.8 CRITICAL

9.8^/10

CVSS v3 : CRITICAL

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-ndw1-psFvnrg

Configurations

No configuration.

History

16 Sep 2026, 20:17

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-09-16 20:17

Updated : 2026-09-18 14:17

NVD link : CVE-2026-20326

Mitre link : CVE-2026-20326

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-20326

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-306

Missing Authentication for Critical Function

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