CVE-2026-20028

Cisco Terminal Services Agent Firewall Rules Bypass Vulnerability

Severity
Medium 5
CVSS 3.1
Remote, needs privileges or user interaction what this means
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.003
25.8th percentile
Discovered by
Third party
Vendor-published field
Published
Aug 5, 2026
Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the network driver of Cisco Terminal Service (TS) Agent could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to bypass firewall rules that are associated with the account of the attacker. This vulnerability is due to an incorrect mapping of network connections to user accounts. An attacker with at least user-level credentials could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted network traffic to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to inherit the firewall rules associated with a different user in the system.

Weakness: CWE-266

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco Terminal Services Agent Identity / IAM / MFA cna-assigner
Vendor-reported products (1)
  • Cisco · Cisco Terminal Services Agent

Vendor advisory

cisco-sa-ts-agent-fw-bypass-MYBTMrev

Cisco Terminal Services Agent Firewall Rules Bypass Vulnerability

Cisco’s rating: Medium (advisory CVSS 5.0) · Published Aug 5, 2026

Bug ID: CSCws82513

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