Riskcovery

CVE-2026-20136

Cisco Identity Services Engine Authenticated Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
6.0 Medium
Published
Apr 15, 2026
Updated
Apr 16, 2026
Reserved
Oct 8, 2025

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Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Cisco ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) could allow an authenticated, local attacker with administrative privileges to perform a command injection attack on the underlying operating system and elevate privileges to root.

This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing crafted input to a specific CLI command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate their privileges to root on the underlying operating system.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.0 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Ncisco

Weaknesses

  • CWE-116 Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco Identity Services Engine SoftwareCisco
  • 3.1.0Affected
  • 3.1.0 p1Affected
  • 3.1.0 p3Affected
  • 3.1.0 p2Affected
  • 3.2.0Affected
  • 3.1.0 p4Affected
  • 3.1.0 p5Affected
  • 3.2.0 p1Affected
  • 3.1.0 p6Affected
  • 3.2.0 p2Affected
  • 3.1.0 p7Affected
  • 3.3.0Affected
  • 3.2.0 p3Affected
  • 3.2.0 p4Affected
  • 3.1.0 p8Affected
  • 3.2.0 p5Affected
  • 3.2.0 p6Affected
  • 3.1.0 p9Affected
  • 3.3 Patch 2Affected
  • 3.3 Patch 1Affected
  • 3.3 Patch 3Affected
  • 3.4.0Affected
  • 3.2.0 p7Affected
  • 3.3 Patch 4Affected
  • 3.4 Patch 1Affected
  • and 16 more versions

References

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