CVE detail
CVE-2026-20126
A vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager could allow an authenticated, local attacker with low privileges to gain root privileges on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability is due to an insufficient user authentication mechanism in the REST API. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a request to the REST API of the affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain root privileges on the underlying operating system.
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Buzz score components · mention 13.9 · diversity 15.0 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
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- Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN VulnerabilitiesCisco Security Advisories
.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-sdwan-authbp-qwCX8D4v Security Impact Rating: Critical CVE: CVE-2026-20122,CVE-2026-20126,CVE-2026-20128,CVE-2026-20129,CVE-2026-20133
vendorsec.cloudapps.cisco.comApr 22, 2026, 3:10 PM Cisco’s widely deployed Catalyst 9300 Series enterprise switches have four security vulnerabilities, two of which could be chained to cause a denial-of-service outage, infrastructure security company Opswat has revealed. The two most operationally significant are CVE-2026-20114 and CVE-2026-20110, which the researchers found could be chained to make possible a dangerous privilege escalation. Opswat’s Unit 515 […]
newswww.csoonline.comMar 25, 2026, 6:28 PM- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-sdwan-authbp-qwCX8D4vsec.cloudapps.cisco.com
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Vendor Advisorysec.cloudapps.cisco.comFeb 25, 2026, 5:25 PM
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