Resource exhaustion in Cisco IEC6400 Wireless Backhaul Edge Compute Software - CVE-2026-20080

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Resource exhaustion in Cisco IEC6400 Wireless Backhaul Edge Compute Software - CVE-2026-20080

Published: January 21, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU121915
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-20080
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Cisco Systems, Inc
Affected software:
Cisco IEC6400 Wireless Backhaul Edge Compute Software

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in the SSH service. A remote attacker can initiate multiple connections to the SSH service and make it unresponsive. 


How to mitigate CVE-2026-20080

Install updates from vendor's website.

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