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Cisco Identity Services Engine Authenticated Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Published
April 15, 2026
Last Modified
April 15, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-20136 →

📋 Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Cisco ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) could allow an authenticated, local attacker with administrative privileges to perform a command injection attack on the underlying operating system and elevate privileges to root.

This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing crafted input to a specific CLI command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate their privileges to root on the underlying operating system.

Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

CVE-2026-20136 — Cisco Identity Services Engine Authenticated Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVSS 3.1 6.0, CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

🎯 Affected products42

  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.1.0
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.1.0 p1
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.1.0 p10
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.1.0 p2
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.1.0 p3
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.1.0 p4
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.1.0 p5
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.1.0 p6
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.1.0 p7
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.1.0 p8
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.1.0 p9
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.2 Patch 8
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.2 Patch 9
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.2.0
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.2.0 p1
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.2.0 p2
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.2.0 p3
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.2.0 p4
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.2.0 p5
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.2.0 p6
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.2.0 p7
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.3 Patch 1
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.3 Patch 10
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.3 Patch 2
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.3 Patch 3
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.3 Patch 4
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.3 Patch 5
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.3 Patch 6
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 3.3 Patch 7
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✅ Remediation

Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. https://software.cisco.com Workarounds: There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

🔗 References (3)