CVE-2026-20169Cisco IoT Field Network Director Command Injection Vulnerability
- 6.4MediumCVSS base score
- 0.21%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 89% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco IoT Field Network Director could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with low privileges to access files and execute commands on a remote router. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of user-supplied data. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting crafted input in the web-based management interface. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to create, read, or delete files and execute limited commands in user EXEC mode on a remote router.
Timeline
ID reserved
By cisco
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ciscoCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium6.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.21% · top 89% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Affected products
Cisco · Cisco IoT Field Network Director (IoT-FND)
- affected 4.5.1
- affected 4.4.3
- affected 4.1.0
- affected 4.1.3
- affected 4.6.1
- affected 4.1.1
- affected 4.4.0
- affected 4.2.0
- affected 4.4.2
- affected 4.3.0
- affected 4.6.0
- affected 4.4.4
- affected 4.3.2
- affected 4.1.2
- affected 4.4.1
- affected 4.5.0
- affected 4.3.1
- affected 4.7.0
- affected 4.6.2
- affected 4.7.1
- affected 4.7.2
- affected 4.8.0
- affected 4.8.1
- affected 4.9.0
- affected 4.9.1
- affected 4.10.0
- affected 4.9.2
- affected 4.11.0
- affected 4.12.0
- affected 4.12.1
What to do
Exploitation: The Cisco PSIRT is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerabilities that are described in this advisory.
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-27854 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Badge for a README or a ticket
[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-20169)Record last updated .