CVE-2026-20269

HIGH
MEDIUM Priority: 0.04 BB Relevance: 77/100
Published: 2026-08-05 Modified: 2026-10-23 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction Scope Change

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: None
S: Changed
C: None
I: None
A: High

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-2026-20269 are related to issues with improper control of a resource through its lifetime that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-664.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (267)

VendorProductVersion
cisco ios_xe 16.6.2
cisco ios_xe 16.6.3
cisco ios_xe 16.6.4
cisco ios_xe 16.6.4a
cisco ios_xe 16.6.4s
cisco ios_xe 16.6.5
cisco ios_xe 16.6.5a
cisco ios_xe 16.6.5b
cisco ios_xe 16.6.6
cisco ios_xe 16.6.7
cisco ios_xe 16.6.7a
cisco ios_xe 16.6.8
cisco ios_xe 16.6.9
cisco ios_xe 16.6.10
cisco ios_xe 16.7.1
cisco ios_xe 16.7.1a
cisco ios_xe 16.7.1b
cisco ios_xe 16.7.2
cisco ios_xe 16.7.3
cisco ios_xe 16.7.4
cisco ios_xe 16.8.1
cisco ios_xe 16.8.1a
cisco ios_xe 16.8.1b
cisco ios_xe 16.8.1c
cisco ios_xe 16.8.1d
cisco ios_xe 16.8.1e
cisco ios_xe 16.8.1s
cisco ios_xe 16.8.2
cisco ios_xe 16.8.3
cisco ios_xe 16.9.1
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Bug Bounty Relevance

77 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

8.6 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.47%
Raw Score 0.004670
Percentile 40.4%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00467
2026-10-28
0.00467

Intelligence Sources

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