CVE-2026-20234
9.9 CRITICALPublished 2026-09-16 · Updated 2026-09-17
AI risk analysis
- Summary
- CVE-2026-20234 involves insufficiently protected credentials in Cisco ISE and ISE-PIC, posing a critical risk due to potential unauthorized access.
- Exploitability
- Exploitation requires administrative privileges but is considered highly feasible given the nature of the vulnerability.
- Blast radius
- If exploited, this could lead to complete system compromise, data theft, and control over network devices.
- Prioritized remediation
- Apply the latest software hardening release provided by Cisco immediately.
Analysis generated locally by qwen2.5:7b-instruct (no data left the box). AI-assisted — verify against primary sources before acting.
NVD description
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Cisco ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) engineering teams have 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-2026-20234 are related to insufficiently protected credentials issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-522.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-522
All references
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