CVSS 3.1
8.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2026-20280
High (8.8) in cisco ios xr. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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-2026-20280 are related to improper checking or handling of exceptional condition issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-703.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 42% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-703
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- cisco:ios_xr