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CVE-2026-20276

Cisco IOS XR Software Security Hardening Release: September 2026

High8.6EPSS 0.47%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
cisco

Description

As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco IOS XR Software engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in a software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-20276 are related to insufficient control flow management issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-691.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2026-20276, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
ciscoCNA (assigner)3.1High8.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVDNVD · Analyzed3.1High8.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.47% · top 59% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.6.

Weakness

Affected products

  • Cisco · Cisco IOS XR Software

    • affected 6.5.29
    • affected 7.0.1
    • affected 6.5.26
    • affected 6.5.25
    • affected 6.5.28
    • affected 6.5.90
    • affected 7.1.1
    • affected 7.0.90
    • affected 6.7.1
    • affected 7.0.2
    • affected 7.1.15
    • affected 7.2.1
    • affected 7.1.2
    • affected 6.7.2
    • affected 7.0.11
    • affected 7.0.12
    • affected 7.0.14
    • affected 7.1.25
    • affected 7.2.12
    • affected 7.3.1
    • affected 7.1.3
    • affected 6.7.3
    • affected 7.4.1
    • affected 7.2.2
    • affected 6.7.4
    • affected 6.5.31
    • affected 7.3.15
    • affected 7.3.16
    • affected 6.8.1
    • affected 7.4.15
    • affected 6.5.32
    • affected 7.3.2
    • affected 7.5.1
    • affected 7.4.16
    • affected 7.3.27
    • affected 7.6.1
    • affected 7.5.2
    • affected 7.8.1
    • affected 7.6.15
    • affected 7.5.12
    • and 72 more

What to do

Exploitation: The Cisco PSIRT is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerabilities that are described in this advisory.

References (2)

Sources

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