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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Network-accessible service with no authentication per Cisco's own advisory; impact confirmed as availability-only by vendor, with no confidentiality or integrity compromise described.
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CVSS VectorVendor: cisco
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2DescriptionCVE.org
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.
AnalysisAI
Buffer management vulnerabilities (CWE-119) in Cisco Secure Workload enable unauthenticated remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service condition against the platform, with no confidentiality or integrity impact per Cisco's own CVSS assessment. An extremely broad range of versions from 1.x through 4.0.x are affected, spanning many years of releases, indicating this class of flaw was introduced early in the product lifecycle. …
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| Exploitation | Per the CVSS vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N, no authentication is required and no special configuration or user interaction is needed - an attacker needs only network-level access to a Cisco Secure Workload service endpoint. … Additional conditions and limiting factors are described in the full assessment. |
| Risk Assessment | The CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.5 with vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H presents a straightforward high-severity DoS scenario: network-reachable, low complexity, no authentication, no user interaction, but impact is limited to availability. … Full risk analysis with EPSS, KEV, and SSVC signal comparison available after sign-in. |
| Exploit Scenario | Full exploit scenario with step-by-step reproduction available after sign-in. |
| Remediation | The primary fix is to upgrade to a Cisco Secure Workload release that includes the hardening changes described in Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sa-hardening-csw1-shSvndWP, available at https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-csw1-shSvndWP. … Detailed patch versions, workarounds, and compensating controls in full report. |
Recommended ActionAI
Within 24 hours, conduct a complete inventory of Cisco Secure Workload instances and versions in your environment, then immediately restrict management interface access through network segmentation to trusted administrative hosts only and enable perimeter-based rate-limiting and DDoS protection mechanisms. …
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EUVD-2026-62572
GHSA-gx2h-r97c-m9pv