CVE-2026-20267

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.09.0—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 9.0 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-08-05. a secondary CVSS source baseline 9.0; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 9.0Exploit: 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 IOS XE Software engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-20267 are related to improper access control issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-284.

CVSS v3
9.0
EG Score
9.0(medium)
EG Risk
41(Track)
EG Risk 41/100SSVC: 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
Severity90% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
18%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 5, 2026

Last Modified

August 14, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Aug 5, 2026
⚠️ Active exploitation confirmed. No patch confirmed yet.
generic🔴 Active Exploitation

Cisco IOS XE Software Security Hardening Release: August 2026

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-iosxe-V8NMuMZJ

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-20267(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 44× in last 7d / 183× 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.

Showing the most recent 100 of 311 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-09-19 13:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-09-19 07:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-09-19 03:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-09-18 22:21 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-09-18 22:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-09-18 19:27 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-09-18 17:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  11. 2026-09-18 01:06 UTCEG score recompute
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  16. 2026-09-17 01:06 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-09-17 01:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-09-16 14:07 UTCEPSS rescore
  19. 2026-09-16 11:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-09-16 07:04 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-09-16 07:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-09-16 05:15 UTCEPSS rescore
  23. 2026-09-16 03:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-09-15 16:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-09-15 06:49 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-09-15 06:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  8. 2026-09-13 19:28 UTCEG score recompute
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  10. 2026-09-13 16:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-09-13 15:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  24. 2026-09-11 18:33 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-11 18:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  26. 2026-09-11 14:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  27. 2026-09-11 14:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  28. 2026-09-11 09:48 UTCEG score recompute
  29. 2026-09-11 09:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  30. 2026-09-11 09:36 UTCEPSS rescore
  31. 2026-09-11 05:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  35. 2026-09-10 12:45 UTCEG score recompute
  36. 2026-09-10 12:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  37. 2026-09-10 09:34 UTCEPSS rescore
  38. 2026-09-10 06:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  42. 2026-09-09 06:21 UTCEG score recompute
  43. 2026-09-09 06:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  44. 2026-09-08 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  45. 2026-09-08 07:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  48. 2026-09-07 18:16 UTCEG score recompute
  49. 2026-09-07 18:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
  50. 2026-09-07 16:01 UTCEPSS rescore
  51. 2026-09-06 21:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  53. 2026-09-06 14:09 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-09-06 14:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  55. 2026-09-06 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  56. 2026-09-06 10:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  60. 2026-09-05 18:26 UTCEG score recompute
  61. 2026-09-05 18:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  74. 2026-09-03 06:47 UTCEG score recompute
  75. 2026-09-03 06:47 UTCGHSA enrichment

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-20267?
CVE-2026-20267 is a critical vulnerability published on August 5, 2026. As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco IOS XE Software engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. The…
When was CVE-2026-20267 disclosed?
CVE-2026-20267 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 5, 2026, with the most recent update on August 14, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-20267 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-20267 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 81.9% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-20267?
CVE-2026-20267 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.0 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-20267?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-20267, 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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