CVE record · CVE-2026-20212

Cisco Nexus 3000 and 9000 Series Switches Silicon One Hardware Abstraction Layer Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0083 · 57th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: cisco) at 2 Sept 2026, 16:13 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Cisco Cisco NX-OS Software
  • affected 10.3(1)
  • affected 10.3(2)
  • affected 10.3(3)
  • affected 10.4(1)
  • affected 10.3(99w)
  • affected 10.3(3w)
  • affected 10.3(99x)
  • affected 10.3(3o)
  • affected 10.3(4)
  • affected 10.3(3p)
  • affected 10.3(4a)
  • affected 10.4(2)
  • and 33 more
Other versions: unknown
Identifiers
CVE-2026-20212
CNA
cisco
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-1327
Published
2 Sept 2026
Updated
3 Sept 2026

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.8 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (cisco)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0083, the 57th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 2 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.