CVE-2026-20246: cisco cisco umbrella insights virtual appliance Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2026-20246 is a medium (CVSS 6.0) Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in cisco cisco umbrella insights virtual appliance. EPSS estimates a 0.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 0.9% of scored vulnerabilities.
Timeline
- 17-06-2026PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 17-06-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
A vulnerability in the vmadmin CLI of Cisco Umbrella Virtual Appliance could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied commands. An attacker with vmadmin privileges could exploit this vulnerability by using certain commands at the CLI. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate privileges to root.
CVSS metrics
2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version- NVDNIST6.0MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS trend
Probability
0.10%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
1%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.10% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Cisco2 products
- cisco umbrella insights virtual appliance2.6.0 | 2.5.6 | 2.5 | 2.4.12 | 2.7 | 2.6.2 | 2.5.5 | 2.5.4 | 2.8 | 2.6.1 | 2.5.7 | 1.5.4 | 1.5.5 | 1.5.6 | 2.0.0 | 2.0.2 | 2.0.3 | 2.1.0 | 2.1.2 | 2.1.4 | 2.1.5 | 2.2 | 2.2.1 | 2.3 | 2.3.1 | 2.4 | 2.4.4 | 2.4.6 | 2.8.9 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 2.8.1 | 2.8.2 | 2.8.3 | 2.8.4 | 2.8.5 | 3.0.1 | 3.0.2 | 3.0.4 | 3.0.5 | 3.1.1 | 3.1.2 | 3.1.3 | 3.1.4 | 3.2.1 | 3.2.2 | 3.2.3 | 3.3 | 3.3.1 | 3.3.2 | 3.3.3 | 3.3.4 | 3.4 | 3.4.1 | 3.4.2 | 3.4.3 | 3.4.4 | 3.4.5 | 3.4.6 | 3.5 | 2.7.1 | 2.7.2 | 2.7.6 | 2.7.9 | 2.7.10 | 3.5.1 | 3.5.2 | 3.6.1 | 3.6.2 | 3.7 | 3.7.1 | 3.8.3
- umbrella_virtual_appliance< 3.8.5
1 vendor · 2 products
References
1 links- sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/…Vendor Advisory