What is CVE-2026-20313?
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-20313 are related to Improper link resolution before file access issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-1284.
The record classifies CVE-2026-20313 under weakness class CWE-1284. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable remotely over the network, needs low-privilege credentials, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on availability. 2 affected-product entries are recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 66 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- CVSS v3.1 base score
- 7.7 — HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H - EPSS (FIRST)
- 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 34.0% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Threadlinqs priority
- 5.2/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
- Published
- 2026-08-05, last modified 2026-08-14
Is CVE-2026-20313 being exploited?
It currently carries a trending score of 27 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
Affected products and versions
- Cisco: Catalyst SD-WAN Controller, Catalyst SD-WAN Manager
How to fix CVE-2026-20313
No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2026-20313 in the tracked sources. Follow the references below for a fix, and treat the products listed above as exposed until the vendor states otherwise.
Threat activity tracking CVE-2026-20313
1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2026-20313, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.
Sources
Enriched from CVE.org, FIRST EPSS, GitHub Security Advisories. Last verified by Threadlinqs on .