Cisco Secure Workload up to 4.0.3.17 injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as very critical has been found in Cisco Secure Workload. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation leads to injection. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-20231. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, has been found in Cisco Secure Workload. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-74. The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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 a software hardening release that addresses multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities.   The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-20231 are related to improper neutralization of special elements issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-74.

It is possible to read the advisory at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-20231 since 10/08/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/19/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1055 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Vendor

• Cisco

Name

• Secure Workload

Version

• 1.102.21
• 1.103.1.12
• 2.0.1.34
• 2.0.2.20
• 2.1.1.29
• 2.1.1.31
• 2.1.1.33
• 2.2.1.34
• 2.2.1.35
• 2.2.1.39
• 2.2.1.41
• 2.3.1.41
• 2.3.1.45
• 2.3.1.49
• 2.3.1.50
• 2.3.1.51
• 2.3.1.52
• 2.3.1.53
• 3.1.1.53
• 3.1.1.54
• 3.1.1.55
• 3.1.1.59
• 3.1.1.61
• 3.1.1.65
• 3.1.1.67
• 3.1.1.70
• 3.2.1.18
• 3.2.1.19
• 3.2.1.20
• 3.2.1.28
• 3.2.1.31
• 3.2.1.32
• 3.2.1.33
• 3.3.2.2
• 3.3.2.5
• 3.3.2.12
• 3.3.2.16
• 3.3.2.23
• 3.3.2.28
• 3.3.2.33
• 3.3.2.35
• 3.3.2.42
• 3.3.2.50
• 3.3.2.53
• 3.4.1.1
• 3.4.1.6
• 3.4.1.14
• 3.4.1.19
• 3.4.1.20
• 3.4.1.28
• 3.4.1.34
• 3.4.1.35
• 3.4.1.40
• 3.5.1.1
• 3.5.1.2
• 3.5.1.17
• 3.5.1.20
• 3.5.1.23
• 3.5.1.30
• 3.5.1.31
• 3.5.1.37
• 3.6.1.5
• 3.6.1.17
• 3.6.1.21
• 3.6.1.35
• 3.6.1.36
• 3.6.1.47
• 3.6.1.52
• 3.7.1.5
• 3.7.1.22
• 3.7.1.39
• 3.7.1.51
• 3.7.1.59
• 3.8.1.1
• 3.8.1.19
• 3.8.1.36
• 3.8.1.39
• 3.8.1.53
• 3.9.1.1
• 3.9.1.10
• 3.9.1.24
• 3.9.1.25
• 3.9.1.28
• 3.9.1.38
• 3.9.1.52
• 3.9.1.64
• 3.9.1.66
• 3.9.1.69
• 3.10.1.1
• 3.10.2.11
• 3.10.3.19
• 3.10.4.8
• 3.10.5.6
• 3.10.6.3
• 3.10.7.4
• 3.10.8.3
• 4.0.1.1
• 4.0.2.4
• 4.0.2.5
• 4.0.3.13
• 4.0.3.17

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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