CVE-2026-20357 (GCVE-0-2026-20357)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-19 16:18 – Updated: 2026-08-19 18:31
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Title
Cisco Crosswork Security Hardening Release: August 2026
Summary
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-2026-20357 are related to missing authentication for critical function issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-306.
Severity
10 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-306 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Cisco Cisco Crosswork Planning Affected: 7.0.2
Affected: 7.1.0
Affected: 7.0.0
Affected: 7.0.4
Affected: 7.0.1
Affected: 7.0.3
Affected: 7.2.0
Affected: 7.1.1
Affected: 7.1.2
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