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Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco Secure Workload

Indian – Computer Emergency Response Team (https://www.cert-in.org.in)

Severity Rating: CRITICAL

Software Affected

Cisco Secure Workload versions prior to 3.10.9.1 (for 3.10 and earlier)

Cisco Secure Workload versions prior to 4.0.4.16 (for 4.0)

Overview

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Cisco Secure Workload, which could allow an attacker to bypass authentication, gain elevated privileges, gain access to sensitive information and execute arbitrary commands on the affected system.

Target Audience:

All end user organizations and individuals using Cisco Secure Workload (SaaS and On-premises deployments).

Risk Assessment:

High risk of unauthorized access, command execution, privilege escalation.

Impact Assessment:

Potential for complete system compromise.

Description

Cisco Secure Workload is a security platform that provides application segmentation, workload protection, and visibility across data centre, cloud, and hybrid environments.

Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Cisco Secure Workload due to improper access control, improper authentication, improper input validation, improper neutralization of special elements and memory corruption issues. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by sending specially crafted requests or inputs to affected Cisco Secure Workload components.

Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to bypass authentication, gain elevated privileges, gain access to sensitive information and execute arbitrary commands on the affected system.

Solution

Apply appropriate updates as mentioned by the vendor:

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-csw1-shSvndWP

Vendor Information

Cisco

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/publicationListing.x

References

Cisco

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-csw1-shSvndWP

CVE Name

CVE-2026-20315

CVE-2026-20317

CVE-2026-20231

CVE-2026-20318

CVE-2026-20319

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CERT-In

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Postal address:

Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In)

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

Government of India

Electronics Niketan

6, C.G.O. Complex

New Delhi-110 003

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