Cisco Security Updates – 21 May 2026

Cisco has released security updates to address several vulnerabilities affecting multiple Cisco products.

The addressed vulnerabilities could allow the attacker to conduct denial-of-service attacks, obtain sensitive information, make configuration changes across tenant boundaries with the privileges of the Site Admin user, execute arbitrary code/commands, and gain access to the affected systems.

Sample of addressed vulnerabilities:

1. Cisco Secure Workload Unauthorized API Access Vulnerability (CVE-2026-20223):

  • CVSS: 10
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: None
  • Consequences: Gain Access

2. Cisco Nexus 3000 and 9000 Series Switches Border Gateway Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2026-20171):

  • CVSS: 6.8
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: High
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: None
  • Consequences: Denial of Service

The affected products:

  • Cisco Secure Workload Cluster Software.
  • Cisco ThousandEyes Virtual Appliance.
  • Cisco ThousandEyes BrowserBot.
  • Cisco Nexus 3000 Series and 9000 Series Switches.
Vulnerabilities
  • CVE-2026-20223
  • CVE-2026-20199
  • CVE-2026-20206
  • CVE-2026-20171
Mitigations

The enterprise should deploy this patch as soon as the testing phase is completed.

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