CVE-2026-20096

Cisco Integrated Management Controller Command Injection Vulnerability

Severity
Medium 6.5
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.007
52.5th percentile
Discovered by
Third party
Vendor-published field
Published
Apr 1, 2026
Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco IMC could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with admin-level privileges to perform command injection attacks on an affected system and execute arbitrary commands as the root user. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted commands to the web-based management interface of the affected software. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system as the root user. Cisco has assigned this vulnerability a Security Impact Rating (SIR) of High, rather than Medium as the score indicates, because additional security implications could occur once the attacker has become root.

Weakness: CWE-77

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software Routing & Switching cna-assigner
Cisco Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Other Products cna-assigner
Vendor-reported products (3)
  • Cisco · Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software
  • Cisco · Cisco Unified Computing System (Standalone)
  • Cisco · Cisco Unified Computing System E-Series Software (UCSE)

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