Cisco ISE CVE-2026-20181/20190 — unauth credential read chaining to authenticated root RCE

cve · CVE-2026-20181

Coverage timeline

first 2026-06-19 → last 2026-06-19

Briefs

1 distinct

Sources cited

37 hosts

Sections touched

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Co-occurring entities

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Story timeline

2026-06-19CTI Daily Brief — 2026-06-19
deep_diveDeep dive + §2; identity-plane two-vector chain, no workaround

Where this entity is cited

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Source distribution

attack.mitre.org9 (14%)
sec.cloudapps.cisco.com7 (11%)
blog.talosintelligence.com6 (9%)
bleepingcomputer.com3 (5%)
thehackernews.com3 (5%)
theregister.com3 (5%)
securityweek.com2 (3%)
security-hub.ncsc.admin.ch2 (3%)
other29 (45%)

Related entities

Cisco ISE CVE-2026-20190 — unauthenticated read of hashed admin credentials (CVSS 7.5)
cveCVE-2026-20190×1
Cisco Talos — demo.pdb BadIIS commodity MaaS ISAPI backdoor; lwxat developer alias; builder tool recovered; UAT-8099 / DragonRank link; 1,800+ IIS servers compromised globally
campaignitem:cisco-talos-badiis-demo-pdb-maas-isapi-backdoor-lwxat-dragon×1
Cisco Talos — DICOM-format heap OOB-write attack surface against Orthanc PACS (pydicom/GDCM)
vulnerability-trenditem:talos-dicom-pacs-orthanc-heap-attack-surface×1

External references

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Items in briefs about Cisco ISE CVE-2026-20181/20190 — unauth credential read chaining to authenticated root RCE (1)

CVE-2026-20181 / CVE-2026-20190 — Cisco Identity Services Engine: unauthenticated credential read chaining to authenticated root command execution

From CTI Daily Brief — 2026-06-19 · published 2026-06-19 · view item permalink →

Cisco's advisory cisco-sa-ise-multi-G5WP8vv (2026-06-17) covers two flaws in ISE and ISE Passive Identity Connector (Cisco PSIRT, 2026-06-17; SecurityWeek, 2026-06-18). CVE-2026-20190 (improper authorization, CVSS 7.5) lets an unauthenticated remote attacker read sensitive data — including hashed administrator credentials — via crafted HTTP requests to specific APIs. CVE-2026-20181 (path traversal, CWE-22, CVSS 9.1) lets an authenticated administrator execute arbitrary OS commands and escalate to root; on single-node deployments it also causes a DoS. Cisco states there is no workaround and reports no known exploitation. Fixed in ISE 3.3 Patch 11 and 3.4 Patch 6 (available now); ISE 3.5 Patch 4 is scheduled for August 2026, with 3.5 Patch 3 closing only CVE-2026-20190 in the interim. The combined two-stage chain — and the detection/hardening for the identity plane it controls — is this brief's § 5 deep dive.