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Cisco Crosswork Planning CVE-2026-20358

| EUVDEUVD-2026-62566 CRITICAL
External Control of File Name or Path (CWE-73)
2026-08-19 cisco GHSA-x99g-7wh9-whr2
10.0
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: cisco
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Vendor (cisco) PRIMARY
10.0 CRITICAL
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
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10.0 CRITICAL

Adopting the vendor vector: unauthenticated network reachability (AV:N/PR:N/UI:N), CWE-73 path control crossing a trust boundary (S:C) driving high integrity and availability impact with no confidentiality effect.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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CVSS VectorVendor: cisco

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

2
Analysis Generated
Aug 19, 2026 - 17:08 vuln.today
CVE Published
Aug 19, 2026 - 16:18 cve.org
CRITICAL 10.0

DescriptionCVE.org

As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Crosswork 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-2026-20358 are related to external control of the file system issues that are grouped Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-73.

AnalysisAI

External control of file system paths (CWE-73) in Cisco Crosswork Planning versions 7.0.0 through 7.2.0 allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to influence file names or paths used by the application, yielding high integrity and availability impact with a scope change (CVSS 10.0). The flaw was discovered internally by Cisco during a proactive hardening review and disclosed as part of a bundled software hardening advisory; no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV. …

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Exploitation Per the CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N), no authentication, no user interaction, and only low complexity are required, so exploitation is remote and unauthenticated against a network-reachable Cisco Crosswork Planning instance running any version from 7.0.0 through 7.2.0. … Additional conditions and limiting factors are described in the full assessment.
Risk Assessment This is a genuine top-priority issue on the raw signals: CVSS 3.1 base score is 10.0 with AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N, meaning network-reachable, low-complexity, unauthenticated exploitation with a scope change. … Full risk analysis with EPSS, KEV, and SSVC signal comparison available after sign-in.
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Remediation Patch available per vendor advisory: upgrade Cisco Crosswork Planning to the fixed hardening release identified in Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sa-hardening-crosswork-UzDTU9Vh (https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-crosswork-UzDTU9Vh); the exact fixed version string is not included in the provided data and must be read from that advisory, so do not assume a version number. … Detailed patch versions, workarounds, and compensating controls in full report.

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Within 24 hours, identify all instances of Cisco Crosswork Planning running versions 7.0.0 through 7.2.0 in your environment and document their network exposure, criticality, and business dependencies. …

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