Security Advisory

CVE-2026-20272

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-08-05 16:19:26
Last updated 2026-08-06 03:55:48
Assigner cisco
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State PUBLISHED

Description

As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco IOS XE Software engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-20272 are related to issues with improper neutralization of special elements that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-74.