CVE-2026-20357Missing authentication in Cisco Crosswork
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Crosswork 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-2026-20357 are related to missing authentication for critical function issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-306.
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Cisco Crosswork permite a atacantes remotos ejecutar funciones criticas sin autenticacion, lo que resulta en un compromiso total de la plataforma de automatizacion de red. Al carecer de validacion de identidad para operaciones sensibles, cualquier usuario con acceso a la red podria realizar tareas administrativas sin credenciales.
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HCWE-306EPSS
No EPSS score yet (CVE may be too fresh).
Technical description
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Crosswork 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-2026-20357 are related to missing authentication for critical function issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-306.