Cisco Nexus Dashboard Software Security Hardening Release September 2026 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function

published 2026-09-16 53 d ago modified 2026-09-18 52 d ago also EUVD-2026-81094

cvss: 9.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.6%; EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 47%
public exploits: 0; none known

As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Nexus Dashboard 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-2026-20326 are related to missing authentication for critical function issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-306.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 52 d ago (2026-09-18)

Exploit prediction

0.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 47% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Cisco Cisco Nexus Dashboard

Classification

Weakness

CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality

References

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com /security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-ndw1-psFvnrg

Sources

CVE List CVE-2026-20326
NVD CVE-2026-20326

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Summary