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-2026-20319 are related to buffer management issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-119.
CVE-2026-20319
HIGHPre-NVD 7.57.5—Trending — 3 sources updated this week
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence
Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-19. a secondary CVSS source baseline 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.
Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: ghsa, secondary
7.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: —CVSS: 7.5Exploit: None knownExposed: 0
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(high)
- EG Risk
- 49(Track)EG Risk 49/100SSVC: 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 computedSeverity75% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability100% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
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- EPSS %ILE
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- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 19, 2026
Last Modified
August 19, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Aug 19, 2026⚠️ Active exploitation confirmed. No patch confirmed yet.
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-shSvndWPVendor Advisories for CVE-2026-20319(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 11× in last 7d / 11× 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.
- 2026-08-19 20:22 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 20:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 19:44 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 19:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 19:20 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 19:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 18:38 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 18:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 17:23 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 16:22 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 16:22 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
Frequently asked(4)
What is CVE-2026-20319?
CVE-2026-20319 is a high 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. The…
When was CVE-2026-20319 disclosed?
CVE-2026-20319 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 19, 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-2026-20319?
CVE-2026-20319 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-20319?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-20319, 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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