Following the initial publication of the Security Advisory about a denial of service (DoS) condition in Cisco Crosswork Network Controller and Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO), additional information has been made available to the Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT). Upon further analysis, the Cisco PSIRT has reclassified this issue as a customer-configurable, resource management issue rather than a security vulnerability.
CVE-2026-20188
Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-05-06.
- No confirmed exploitation signals yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
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- EG Score
- 7.5(low)
- EPSS
- 23.2%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
May 6, 2026
Last Modified
May 14, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated May 6, 2026Cisco Crosswork Network Controller and Cisco Network Services Orchestrator Connection Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-nso-dos-7EgqycVendor Advisories for CVE-2026-20188(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
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Data Freshness Timeline
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