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-2026-20317 are related to improper authentication issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-287.
History

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Cisco secure Workload
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Cisco secure Workload

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Description 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-2026-20317 are related to improper authentication issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-287.
Title Cisco Secure Workload Software Security Hardening Release August 2026 - Improper Authentication Vulnerabilities
Weaknesses CWE-287
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 10, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-20T15:57:08.173Z

Reserved: 2025-10-08T11:59:15.410Z

Link: CVE-2026-20317

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Updated: 2026-08-19T18:31:50.971Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-08-19T17:18:39.963

Modified: 2026-08-20T16:17:21.277

Link: CVE-2026-20317

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No data.

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Updated: 2026-08-20T14:15:05Z