--- title: "CVE-2026-20333: CVE-2026-20333" description: "As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Secure Adaptive Security Appliance Software, Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Software engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in a software hardening release that addresses multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-20333 are related to incorrect comparison conditions that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-697." url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-20333/ --- # CVE-2026-20333 CVE-2026-20333 As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Secure Adaptive Security Appliance Software, Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Software engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in a software hardening release that addresses multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-20333 are related to incorrect comparison conditions that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-697. CVSS base score 8.8 /10 High CISA KEV Not listed Public exploit None known EPSS 0.32% chance of exploitation in 30 days [View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-20333) ## Details CVSS vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Published 16 September 2026 Updated 15 October 2026 Weakness [CWE-697](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/697.html) ## References - [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-20333](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-20333) - [https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-asaftdfmc-uvpPROhN](https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-asaftdfmc-uvpPROhN) [← All CVEs](https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/) ## What this record can't tell you - Whether you run the affected software, and where - Whether an attacker can actually reach and exploit it - The misconfigurations that never get a CVE number - What it would cost the business, ranked into what to fix first Panop answers these inside your environment, for this CVE and every other finding. [Book a demo](https://panop.io/demo)