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CVE-2026-20271

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
05/08/2026
Last modified:
14/08/2026

Description

As part of Cisco&amp;#39;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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> &amp;nbsp;

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.60 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
8.60
Severity 3.x
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.6.4a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.6.4s:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.6.5a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.6.5b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.6.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.6.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.6.7a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.6.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.6.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.6.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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