CVE-2026-20231

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.99.9—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 9.9 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-08-19. a secondary CVSS source baseline 9.9; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: ghsa, secondary
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
9.9EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: —CVSS: 9.9Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

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-2026-20231 are related to improper neutralization of special elements issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-74.

CVSS v3
9.9
EG Score
9.9(high)
EG Risk
45(Track)
EG Risk 45/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity99% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
—
EPSS %ILE
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KEV
Not listed

Published

August 19, 2026

Last Modified

August 20, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Aug 20, 2026
⚠️ Active exploitation confirmed. No patch confirmed yet.
generic
https://www.cve.org/Media/News/item/blog/2026/06/16/Preserving-Vulnerability-Level-Identification
generic🔴 Active Exploitation

Cisco Secure Workload Software Security Hardening Release: August 2026

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-csw1-shSvndWP

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-20231(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 15× in last 7d / 15× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-08-20 04:19 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-08-20 04:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-08-20 04:08 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-08-20 04:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-08-20 03:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-08-20 00:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-08-19 20:22 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-08-19 20:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-08-19 19:20 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-08-19 19:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-08-19 18:38 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-08-19 18:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-08-19 17:23 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-08-19 16:22 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-08-19 16:22 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(4)

What is CVE-2026-20231?
CVE-2026-20231 is a critical vulnerability published on August 19, 2026. 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.…
When was CVE-2026-20231 disclosed?
CVE-2026-20231 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 19, 2026, with the most recent update on August 20, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-20231?
CVE-2026-20231 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.9 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-20231?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-20231, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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