CVE-2026-20326: Missing Authentication for Critical Function in Cisco Cisco Nexus Dashboard
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.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
CVE-2026-20326 concerns missing authentication for critical functions in Cisco Nexus Dashboard 4.2.1, categorized under CWE-306. The vulnerability permits unauthenticated remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Cisco's internal security review led to a hardening release that fixes multiple such vulnerabilities, including this one.
Potential Impact
The vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 (critical), indicating it can be exploited remotely without authentication and with low attack complexity, resulting in complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system.
Mitigation Recommendations
Cisco has released a software hardening update addressing this vulnerability as part of their internal security review. Users should apply the official patch or upgrade to the fixed version as per Cisco's advisory. Patch status is not explicitly confirmed in the provided data; therefore, check Cisco's official advisory for the current remediation guidance.
CVE-2026-20326: Missing Authentication for Critical Function in Cisco Cisco Nexus Dashboard
Description
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.
CVSS v3.1
Score 9.8critical
Affected software
Cisco
Cisco Nexus Dashboard
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AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
CVE-2026-20326 concerns missing authentication for critical functions in Cisco Nexus Dashboard 4.2.1, categorized under CWE-306. The vulnerability permits unauthenticated remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Cisco's internal security review led to a hardening release that fixes multiple such vulnerabilities, including this one.
Potential Impact
The vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 (critical), indicating it can be exploited remotely without authentication and with low attack complexity, resulting in complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system.
Mitigation Recommendations
Cisco has released a software hardening update addressing this vulnerability as part of their internal security review. Users should apply the official patch or upgrade to the fixed version as per Cisco's advisory. Patch status is not explicitly confirmed in the provided data; therefore, check Cisco's official advisory for the current remediation guidance.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- cisco
- Date Reserved
- 2025-10-08T11:59:15.411Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 6aaaf94455bf5e2cf51ba040
Added to database: 09/16/2026, 20:17:08 UTC
Last enriched: 09/16/2026, 20:32:49 UTC
Last updated: 09/17/2026, 03:37:25 UTC
Views: 7
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