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Cisco Secure Workload Software Security Hardening Release: August 2026

Critical 5 CVEs Published Aug 19, 2026 at 4:00 PM UTC

Summary

As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Secure Workload engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities were found during internal testing and are not known to be actively exploited.

To assist customers in patching and to streamline the disclosure process, Cisco has grouped these issues by their underlying vulnerability class - Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) - and assigned a single Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Identifier (CVE ID) to each CWE grouping. Cisco has released software updates that address these vulnerabilities. There are no workarounds that address these vulnerabilities.

Security Impact Rating: Critical CVE: CVE-2026-20231,CVE-2026-20315,CVE-2026-20317,CVE-2026-20318,CVE-2026-20319

Products covered

A separate affected-products list was not included in the collected bulletin.

Remediation

To assist customers in patching and to streamline the disclosure process, Cisco has grouped these issues by their underlying vulnerability class - Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) - and assigned a single Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Identifier (CVE ID) to each CWE grouping.

CVEs in this advisory 5

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