CVE-2026-20359

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.

CVSS v3 9.9 CRITICAL

9.9^/10

CVSS v3 : CRITICAL

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.1 / Impact : 6.0

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope CHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-crosswork-UzDTU9Vh
https://www.cve.org/Media/News/item/blog/2026/06/16/Preserving-Vulnerability-Level-Identification

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-08-19 17:18

Updated : 2026-08-20 16:17

NVD link : CVE-2026-20359

Mitre link : CVE-2026-20359

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-20359

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-522

Insufficiently Protected Credentials

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