CVE-2026-20317: Cisco Secure Workload Software Security Hardening Release August 2026 - Improper Authentication Vulnerabilities
Published Aug 19, 2026
·Updated
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Secure Workload 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-2026-20317 are related to improper authentication issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-287.
Affected Software
1 affected component
Cisco Secure Workload
Event History
Aug 19, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·04:19 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·04:19 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeakness
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