Cisco has 555 CVEs on record between 2017 and 2026. Disclosure cadence is accelerating: 178 in the last 90 days against 27 in the 90 before. The busiest recent month was September 2026 with 96. The median CVSS is 7.4 (high), with 77 rated critical. 4% have been exploited in the wild, in line with the corpus average. When CISA adds a Cisco CVE to KEV it happens fast: a median of 6 days after publication (18 cases). The dominant weakness classes are CWE-20 (41) and CWE-400 (33). Most affected products: secure_firewall_threat_defense (75), identity_services_engine (33), Cisco IOS XE Software (23).
CVEs per month
Last 12 months, by publish date
- Exploited share
- 4% vs 1% corpus
- Median CVSS
- 7.4
- Publish → KEV
- 6 d median(18)
- Last 90 days
- 178 prev 27
Weakness classes
Products
- secure_firewall_threat_defense 75
- identity_services_engine 33
- Cisco IOS XE Software 23
- Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 22
- IOS 22
- enterprise_nfv_infrastructure_software 21
Worst active — by depth score
CVE-2026-20079Critical· 10.0A vulnerability in the web interface of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and execute script files on an affected device to obtain root access …98CVE-2026-76460Critical· 10.0A vulnerability in an API of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication. This vulnerability is due to insufficient authentication control on an API endpoint95CVE-2026-20230High· 8.6A vulnerability in Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct server-side request forg…90CVE-2026-76504Critical· 9.8A vulnerability in the API session-based authentication management of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access an affected system with privileges of the admin user. This vulnerability is …87CVE-2025-20393Critical· 10.0Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager Remote Command Execution Vulnerability86
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555 CVEsRSS
CVE-2018-0243Medium· 5.8A vulnerability in the detection engine of Cisco Firepower System Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass a configured file action policy that is intended to drop the Server Message Block Version 2 (SMB2) and S…
A vulnerability in the detection engine of Cisco Firepower System Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass a configured file action policy that is intended to drop the Server Message Block Version 2 (SMB2) and S…
CVE-2018-0240High· 8.6Multiple vulnerabilities in the Application Layer Protocol Inspection feature of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigge…
Multiple vulnerabilities in the Application Layer Protocol Inspection feature of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigge…
CVE-2018-0231High· 8.6A vulnerability in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) library of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a reload of th…
A vulnerability in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) library of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a reload of th…
CVE-2018-0230High· 8.6A vulnerability in the internal packet-processing functionality of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software for Cisco Firepower 2100 Series Security Appliances could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected dev…
A vulnerability in the internal packet-processing functionality of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software for Cisco Firepower 2100 Series Security Appliances could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected dev…
CVE-2018-0228High· 8.6A vulnerability in the ingress flow creation functionality of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the CPU to increase upwards of 100% utilization, causing a denial of service (…
A vulnerability in the ingress flow creation functionality of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the CPU to increase upwards of 100% utilization, causing a denial of service (…
CVE-2018-0227High· 7.5A vulnerability in the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Virtual Private Network (VPN) Client Certificate Authentication feature for Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to establish an SSL VPN…
A vulnerability in the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Virtual Private Network (VPN) Client Certificate Authentication feature for Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to establish an SSL VPN…
CVE-2018-0138Medium· 5.3A vulnerability in the detection engine of Cisco Firepower System Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass file policies that are configured to block files transmitted to an affected device via the BitTorrent pr…
A vulnerability in the detection engine of Cisco Firepower System Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass file policies that are configured to block files transmitted to an affected device via the BitTorrent pr…
CVE-2018-0101Critical· 10.0PoCA vulnerability in the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) VPN functionality of the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a reload of the affected system or to remotely execute c…
A vulnerability in the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) VPN functionality of the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a reload of the affected system or to remotely execute c…
CVE-2017-6770Medium· 4.2Multiple Cisco Products OSPF LSA Manipulation Vulnerability (CVE-2017-6770)
Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability involving the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Routing Protocol Link State Advertisement (LSA) database. This vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to take full…
CVE-2017-6664Medium· 6.5Cisco IOS XE Software Autonomic Networking Infrastructure Certificate Revocation Vulnerability (CVE-2017-6664)
A vulnerability in the Autonomic Networking feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote, autonomic node to access the Autonomic Networking infrastructure of an affected system, after the certificate for the auto…
CVE-2017-6632High· 7.5A vulnerability in the logging configuration of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) policies for Cisco FirePOWER System Software 5.3.0 through 6.2.2 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition due …
A vulnerability in the logging configuration of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) policies for Cisco FirePOWER System Software 5.3.0 through 6.2.2 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition due …
CVE-2017-6625High· 7.1A "Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.0.0 through 6.2.2 and Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Module Denial of Service" vulnerability in the access control policy of Cisco Firepower System Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to c…
A "Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.0.0 through 6.2.2 and Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Module Denial of Service" vulnerability in the access control policy of Cisco Firepower System Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to c…
CVE-2017-3887Medium· 5.9A vulnerability in the detection engine that handles Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) packets for Cisco Firepower System Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition because the Snort pr…
A vulnerability in the detection engine that handles Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) packets for Cisco Firepower System Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition because the Snort pr…
CVE-2017-3822Medium· 5.3A vulnerability in the logging subsystem of the Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Firepower Device Manager (FDM) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to add arbitrary entries to the audit log
A vulnerability in the logging subsystem of the Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Firepower Device Manager (FDM) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to add arbitrary entries to the audit log. This vulnerability affects Cis…
CVE-2017-3806Medium· 5.3A vulnerability in CLI command processing in the Cisco Firepower 4100 Series Next-Generation Firewall and Cisco Firepower 9300 Security Appliance could allow an authenticated, local attacker to inject arbitrary shell commands that are ex…
A vulnerability in CLI command processing in the Cisco Firepower 4100 Series Next-Generation Firewall and Cisco Firepower 9300 Security Appliance could allow an authenticated, local attacker to inject arbitrary shell commands that are ex…