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CVE-2026-20359 is a critical Cisco Crosswork vulnerability grouping multiple internally discovered issues related to insufficiently protected credentials. Cisco characterized the underlying weakness as CWE-522. The issue was addressed in the Cisco Crosswork 7.2.1-SP hardening release. Available reporting indicates that this vulnerability class affects how credentials are stored, handled, or otherwise protected within the product, creating conditions that can be leveraged as part of broader compromise activity. Cisco associated exploitation of the affected Crosswork vulnerability set with outcomes including remote code execution, authentication bypass, path traversal, and file overwrite or deletion; however, the specific vulnerable component or function for CVE-2026-20359 has not been publicly detailed in the available information.
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