As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Secure Workload 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-2026-20231 are related to improper neutralization of special elements issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-74.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

No EPSS score available.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
Cisco Cisco Secure Workload unknown
Version Status Constraints
2.2.1.41 affected —
3.2.1.18 affected —
3.3.2.50 affected —
3.4.1.28 affected —
3.4.1.34 affected —
2.3.1.45 affected —
2.3.1.41 affected —
3.3.2.28 affected —
3.1.1.59 affected —
2.0.2.20 affected —
2.1.1.33 affected —
2.1.1.29 affected —
3.2.1.28 affected —
3.4.1.35 affected —
3.1.1.65 affected —
3.1.1.67 affected —
2.0.1.34 affected —
2.3.1.49 affected —
2.2.1.39 affected —
3.4.1.19 affected —
3.3.2.23 affected —
3.1.1.61 affected —
3.1.1.54 affected —
3.5.1.17 affected —
3.3.2.33 affected —
3.5.1.1 affected —
2.3.1.53 affected —
3.5.1.20 affected —
3.5.1.30 affected —
3.3.2.16 affected —
3.1.1.55 affected —
3.4.1.6 affected —
2.3.1.50 affected —
2.3.1.52 affected —
3.2.1.19 affected —
2.2.1.35 affected —
3.1.1.53 affected —
3.1.1.70 affected —
3.2.1.20 affected —
3.5.1.2 affected —
1.103.1.12 affected —
2.3.1.51 affected —
3.3.2.42 affected —
3.4.1.1 affected —
3.3.2.12 affected —
2.1.1.31 affected —
3.5.1.23 affected —
3.3.2.53 affected —
3.4.1.14 affected —
3.3.2.2 affected —
3.4.1.20 affected —
3.3.2.35 affected —
2.2.1.34 affected —
1.102.21 affected —
3.3.2.5 affected —
3.5.1.31 affected —
3.6.1.5 affected —
3.2.1.31 affected —
3.5.1.37 affected —
3.4.1.40 affected —
3.6.1.17 affected —
3.6.1.21 affected —
3.2.1.32 affected —
3.2.1.33 affected —
3.6.1.35 affected —
3.6.1.36 affected —
3.7.1.5 affected —
3.6.1.47 affected —
3.7.1.22 affected —
3.6.1.52 affected —
3.7.1.39 affected —
3.8.1.1 affected —
3.7.1.51 affected —
3.8.1.19 affected —
3.8.1.36 affected —
3.7.1.59 affected —
3.8.1.39 affected —
3.9.1.1 affected —
3.9.1.10 affected —
3.9.1.24 affected —
3.9.1.25 affected —
3.9.1.28 affected —
3.9.1.38 affected —
3.8.1.53 affected —
3.9.1.52 affected —
3.10.1.1 affected —
3.9.1.64 affected —
3.10.2.11 affected —
3.9.1.66 affected —
3.10.3.19 affected —
3.9.1.69 affected —
3.10.4.8 affected —
3.10.5.6 affected —
4.0.1.1 affected —
4.0.2.4 affected —
4.0.2.5 affected —
3.10.6.3 affected —
3.10.7.4 affected —
4.0.3.13 affected —
4.0.3.17 affected —
3.10.8.3 affected —

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References
Link Providers
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-csw1-shSvndWP cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/Media/News/item/blog/2026/06/16/Preserving-Vulnerability-Level-Identification cve-icon
History

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:30:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Cisco
Cisco secure Workload
Vendors & Products Cisco
Cisco secure Workload

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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Description As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Secure Workload 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-2026-20231 are related to improper neutralization of special elements issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-74.
Title Cisco Secure Workload Software Security Hardening Release August 2026 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Vulnerabilities
Weaknesses CWE-74
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-20T03:57:02.833Z

Reserved: 2025-10-08T11:59:15.399Z

Link: CVE-2026-20231

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-19T18:31:50.763Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-19T17:18:39.227

Modified: 2026-08-20T04:16:48.250

Link: CVE-2026-20231

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-20T09:09:01Z

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