CVE-2026-20279 (GCVE-0-2026-20279)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-02 16:13 – Updated: 2026-09-03 03:56
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Cisco IOS XR Software Security Hardening Release: September 2026
Summary
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco IOS XR Software engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in a software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities.
The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-20279 are related to improper access control issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-284.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-02 00:00 UTC
CWE
- CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cisco | Cisco IOS XR Software |
Affected:
6.5.29
Affected: 7.0.1 Affected: 6.5.26 Affected: 6.5.25 Affected: 6.5.28 Affected: 6.5.90 Affected: 7.1.1 Affected: 7.0.90 Affected: 6.7.1 Affected: 7.0.2 Affected: 7.1.15 Affected: 7.2.1 Affected: 7.1.2 Affected: 6.7.2 Affected: 7.0.11 Affected: 7.0.12 Affected: 7.0.14 Affected: 7.1.25 Affected: 7.2.12 Affected: 7.3.1 Affected: 7.1.3 Affected: 6.7.3 Affected: 7.4.1 Affected: 7.2.2 Affected: 6.7.4 Affected: 6.5.31 Affected: 7.3.15 Affected: 7.3.16 Affected: 6.8.1 Affected: 7.4.15 Affected: 6.5.32 Affected: 7.3.2 Affected: 7.5.1 Affected: 7.4.16 Affected: 7.3.27 Affected: 7.6.1 Affected: 7.5.2 Affected: 7.8.1 Affected: 7.6.15 Affected: 7.5.12 Affected: 7.8.12 Affected: 7.3.3 Affected: 7.7.1 Affected: 6.8.2 Affected: 7.3.4 Affected: 7.4.2 Affected: 6.7.35 Affected: 6.9.1 Affected: 7.6.2 Affected: 7.5.3 Affected: 7.7.2 Affected: 6.9.2 Affected: 7.9.1 Affected: 7.10.1 Affected: 7.8.2 Affected: 7.5.4 Affected: 6.5.33 Affected: 7.8.22 Affected: 7.7.21 Affected: 7.9.2 Affected: 7.3.5 Affected: 7.5.5 Affected: 7.11.1 Affected: 7.9.21 Affected: 7.10.2 Affected: 24.1.1 Affected: 7.6.3 Affected: 7.3.6 Affected: 7.5.52 Affected: 7.11.2 Affected: 24.2.1 Affected: 24.1.2 Affected: 24.2.11 Affected: 24.3.1 Affected: 24.4.1 Affected: 24.2.2 Affected: 7.8.23 Affected: 7.11.21 Affected: 24.2.20 Affected: 24.3.2 Affected: 24.4.10 Affected: 6.5.35 Affected: 25.1.1 Affected: 24.4.2 Affected: 24.3.20 Affected: 24.4.15 Affected: 25.2.1 Affected: 6.5.351 Affected: 25.1.2 Affected: 24.3.30 Affected: 25.3.1 Affected: 6.5.352 Affected: 24.4.30 Affected: 24.2.21 Affected: 25.4.1 Affected: 25.2.2 Affected: 25.2.15 Affected: 7.2.0 Affected: 7.0.0 Affected: 25.2.30 Affected: 6.5.353 Affected: 26.1.1 Affected: 25.1.30 Affected: 25.3.15 Affected: 26.2.100 Affected: 25.4.2 Affected: 26.2.1 Affected: 25.4.30 Affected: 26.1.2 Affected: 25.4.201 Affected: 26.2.101 |
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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