Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 2, 2026· Updated Sep 2, 2026

CVE-2026-20279

Description

As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco IOS XR Software engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in a software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities.

The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-20279 are related to improper access control issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-284.

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Affected products

Cisco Systems, Inc./iOS Xr Softwarellm-fuzzy

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References

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-iosxr-qg64NcMnvd

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