CVE-2026-20192 is a Cisco software-hardening umbrella CVE for multiple internally discovered improper access control vulnerabilities in Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Cisco ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC). The underlying issues can permit an unauthenticated remote attacker to bypass authorization or other security controls. Cisco assigns the CVE a CVSS v3 score of 10.0, representing the highest-severity issue in the grouped vulnerability class.
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What an attacker gets, and what they’ve been doing with it.
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No public exploit code observed for this vulnerability.
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Vendor-confirmed product mapping. Mallory continuously reconciles this list against your asset inventory.
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An improper access-control flaw in Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Cisco ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) that can enable unauthenticated bypass of security controls, sensitive-data access, configuration modification, and availability impact.
A critical vulnerability affecting Cisco Identity Services Engine. The article associates the ISE flaw set with authentication bypass and possible malicious-code execution.
Unauthenticated authorization-bypass vulnerability in Cisco ISE and ISE-PIC.
A Cisco internally discovered improper-access-control vulnerability grouping addressed through a software-hardening release for Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Cisco ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC).
Query your assets running an affected version, and investigate the blast radius.
Every observed campaign linking this CVE to a named adversary.
Malware families riding this exploit, with evidence and IOCs.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
Community discussion across Reddit, Mastodon, and other social sources.