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-2026-20277 are related to protection mechanism failure issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-693.

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Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:30:00 +0000

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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-2026-20277 are related to protection mechanism failure issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-693.
Title Cisco IOS XR Software Security Hardening Release: September 2026
Weaknesses CWE-693
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-02T17:58:59.278Z

Reserved: 2025-10-08T11:59:15.403Z

Link: CVE-2026-20277

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-02T17:17:33.110

Modified: 2026-09-02T18:19:17.237

Link: CVE-2026-20277

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