CVE-2026-20275highCWE-682

CVE-2026-20275: high-severity vulnerability in Cisco IOS XR Software

Cisco IOS XR Software Security Hardening Release: September 2026

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21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has an official Brazilian government alert.

ssvc Trackcvss 8.8epss 0.3%
Official alert in Brazil

Brazil's federal government published an alert, recommendation or bulletin that cites this vulnerability.

Source: CTIR Gov (GSI) and CISC Gov.br, under the CC BY-ND 3.0 license.
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-2026-20275 are related to incorrect calculation issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-682.
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Cisco · Cisco IOS XR Software
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