CVE-2026-20317
CriticalCVSS 10.0Summary
Vulnerability in Cisco Secure Workload related to improper authentication (CWE-287). Discovered during internal security review, fixed in hardening release.
Risk Assessment
Improper authentication may allow an attacker to impersonate a legitimate user and gain unauthorized access.
Recommendation
Update Cisco Secure Workload to a patched version.
Original NVD description (English source)
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Secure Workload 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-2026-20317 are related to improper authentication issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-287.