Cisco Integrated Management Controller Command Injection and Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities

cisco-sa-cimc-cmd-inj-3hKN3bVt · Cisco · April 1, 2026

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based management interface of Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or commands on the underlying operating system of an affected system and elevate privileges to root. For more information about these vulnerabilities, see the Details ["#details"] section of this advisory. Cisco has released software updates that address these vulnerabilities. There are no workarounds that address these vulnerabilities.

From Cisco (vendor's own words, quoted), quoted as published. Check the source before acting.

What to do

Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability.

Vendor fix or mitigation, quoted from the advisory.

Each CVE in this advisory

CVE	Severity	Known exploited	Exploit likelihood	Weakness
CVE-2026-20094	8.8 high	No	1.1%	—
CVE-2026-20095	6.5 medium	No	0.9%	—
CVE-2026-20096	6.5 medium	No	0.7%	—
CVE-2026-20097	6.5 medium	No	0.4%	—

Severity from the advisory (CVSS), known exploitation from CISA's catalog, exploit likelihood from EPSS (next 30 days).

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed
Cisco	Cisco Unified Computing System (Standalone)	3.1, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.0	—
Cisco	Cisco Unified Computing System E-Series Software (UCSE)	2.1, 2.4, 3.2, 3.1, 3.0, 2.3, 2.2, 4.11, 4.12, 4.15, 2.0	—
Cisco	Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software	3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 4.1, 3.3, 3.4, 4.2, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 4.11	—
Cisco	Cisco UCS S-Series Storage Servers	—	—
Cisco	Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Standalone Server Software	—	—
Cisco	Cisco UCS E-Series Servers	—	—
Cisco	Cisco 5000 Series Enterprise Network Compute System	—	—

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Change history

April 1, 2026: Initial public release.
April 22, 2026: Updated fix information for Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Cisco Telemetry Broker.
November 9, 2026: First collected by Watch

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