Cisco on Wednesday rolled out patches for two dozen vulnerabilities across its products, including critical-severity bugs in Catalyst SD-WAN, IOS XE, and Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC).

For Catalyst SD-WAN, the company released five fixes, noting that the CVEs were assigned to multiple weaknesses grouped by the underlying vulnerability class.

Three of the CVEs, namely CVE-2026-20303, CVE-2026-20304, and CVE-2026-20310, have a CVSS score of 9.9 and are described as improper input validation, improper access control, and improper link resolution before file access.

The remaining two, CVE-2026-20312 and CVE-2026-20313, are high-severity flaws described as cleartext storage of sensitive information and improper validation of specified quantity in input.

IOS XE received seven fixes, and the assigned CVEs group multiple issues by their underlying vulnerability class.

Two of them, CVE-2026-20272 (CVSS score of 9.8) and CVE-2026-20267 (CVSS score of 9.0), are critical-severity command injection and improper access control defects, while the rest are high-severity flaws.

FMC received patches for CVE-2026-20079 (CVSS score of 10), a critical authentication bypass that allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute scripts and gain root privileges.

“An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted HTTP requests to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute a variety of scripts and commands that allow root access to the device,” Cisco notes.

The company also patched high-severity security defects in Integrated Management Controller (IMC), IOS XE, and IOS, and medium-severity bugs in IOS XE, Terminal Service (TS) Agent, Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, RoomOS, and IMC.

Of these, CVE-2026-20200 (CVSS score of 8.8) deserves special attention. It is a high-severity improper validation of user-supplied input issue in IMC that could be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary commands and gain root privileges.

While the flaw’s exploitation requires authentication, proof-of-concept (PoC) code targeting it exists, Cisco warns. The weakness affects UCS C-Series M7 and M8 Rack Servers in standalone mode.

Cisco says it is not aware of any of these vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild. Additional information can be found on the company’s security advisories page.

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