Cisco IOS XE Software Web-Based Management Interface Denial of Service Vulnerability
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with low privileges to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device.
This vulnerability is due to insufficient error handling in the web-based management interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating with a malformed certificate. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to reload, resulting in a DoS condition.
Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.
CVE-2026-20311 — Cisco IOS XE Software Web UI Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVSS 3.1 6.3, CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H)
🎯 Affected products156
- Cisco IOS XE Software
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.10.1
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.10.1a
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.10.1b
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.11.1
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.11.1a
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.1
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.1a
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.1w
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.1x
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.1y
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.1z
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.1z1
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.1z2
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.1z3
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.1z4
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.1z5
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.1z6
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.2
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.2a
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.3
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.3a
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.4
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.4a
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.4b
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.5
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.5a
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.5b
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.5c
- Cisco IOS XE Software 17.12.5d
- +126 more not shown
✅ 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)
- advisoryhttps://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-xe-webui-dos-PtAODAWW
- csafhttps://www.cisco.com/.well-known/csaf/2026/cisco-sa-xe-webui-dos-ptaodaww.json
- externalhttps://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-xe-webui-dos-z9yqYQAn#fs