CVE-2026-20307

Cisco Identity Services Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

At a glance

Severity
CRITICAL 9.9
EPSS
EPSS 0.98 % · percentile 62 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco ISE could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of an affected device. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have at least low-privileged administrative credentials. This vulnerability is due to insecure deserialization of a user-supplied Java byte stream. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted serialized Java object to the web-based management interface of an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the device and elevate privileges to root. In single-node deployments, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could cause the affected ISE node to become unavailable, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. In that condition, endpoints that have not already authenticated would be unable to access the network until the node is restored.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hcisco
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco Identity Services Engine Softwareaffected 3.1.0 ; affected 3.1.0 p1 ; affected 3.1.0 p3 ; affected 3.1.0 p2 ; affected 3.2.0 ; affected 3.1.0 p4

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD