CVE-2026-20315 is a critical improper access control vulnerability in Cisco Secure Workload. It is grouped by Cisco as part of a set of internally discovered access control weaknesses addressed in a software hardening release. Available reporting indicates the flaw involves an authentication bypass condition that can allow an attacker to access Secure Workload instances through an unspecified path. The issue is categorized under CWE-284, indicating that access restrictions are not correctly enforced for affected functionality.
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A Cisco Secure Workload vulnerability covering improper access control and/or authentication issues that could lead to authentication bypass.
A critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Cisco Secure Workload that can allow attackers to access instances.
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Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
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