CVE-2026-20094

Cisco Integrated Management Controller Command Injection Vulnerability

Severity
High 8.8
CVSS 3.1
Remote, needs privileges or user interaction what this means
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.011
65.0th percentile
Discovered by
Third party
Vendor-published field
Published
Apr 1, 2026
Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco IMC could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with read-only privileges to perform command injection attacks on an affected system and execute arbitrary commands as the root user. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted commands to the web-based management interface of the affected software. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system as the root user.

Weakness: CWE-77

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Other Products cna-assigner
Vendor-reported products (2)
  • Cisco · Cisco Unified Computing System (Standalone)
  • Cisco · Cisco Unified Computing System E-Series Software (UCSE)

Vendor advisory

cisco-sa-cimc-cmd-inj-3hKN3bVt

Cisco Integrated Management Controller Command Injection and Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Cisco’s rating: High (advisory CVSS 8.8) · Published Apr 1, 2026 · updated Apr 22, 2026 (revision 1.1)

Bug IDs: CSCwr60021 , CSCwr60889 , CSCwr60894 , CSCwr60925 , CSCws00363 , CSCws00368 , CSCws00370 , CSCws00376 , CSCws00378

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