CVE-2026-20282

Cisco Identity Services Engine Authenticated Write Vulnerability

MEDIUM 4.9

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.60 % · percentile 48 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Description

A vulnerability in Cisco ISE could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to obtain write access on the underlying operating system of an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to obtain write access to the underlying operating system. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid administrative credentials. Note: For CVE-2026-20282, Cisco has assigned a Security Impact Rating (SIR) of High rather than Medium as the score indicates. The reason is that it is easy to get to root from the achieved privilege level.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-641 — Improper Restriction of Names for Files and Other Resources

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Ncisco
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco Identity Services Engine Softwareaffected 3.1.0 ; affected 3.1.0 p1 ; affected 3.1.0 p3 ; affected 3.1.0 p2 ; affected 3.2.0 ; affected 3.1.0 p4

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD