CVSS base score: 10.0 (Critical) vendor CNA · v3.1
Score assigned by the vendor's own CVE Numbering Authority (CNA); CISA's Vulnrichment program adds a score only when the CNA omits one.
Cisco Identity Services Engine Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs Vulnerability
Vendor: Cisco Product: Identity Services Engine
Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Cisco ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) contain an incorrect use of privileged APIs vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain unauthorized access to the affected device by bypassing the web-based management interface.
Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 6 points from 2026-09-17, tracked daily from 2026-09-17; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 0.9% on 2026-09-17.
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What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.
| Date | Source | Article |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-21 | Check Point Research | 21st September – Threat Intelligence Report |
| 2026-09-17 | The Hacker News | Cisco Warns of New Zero-Day ISE Auth Bypass (CVSS 10.0) Exploited in Active Attacks |
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Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM);
Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence
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its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed
GNU GPL v2.
| Source | Date | Record |
|---|---|---|
| CISA KEV | 2026-09-16 | source record → |
| CISA Vulnrichment | 2026-09-16 | source record → |
| Date | Advisory | Issuer |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-16 | CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog | CISA |
No exploit-tool sightings recorded for this CVE.
Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.
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