Cisco Patches Nine Crosswork and Secure Workload Flaws, Five Scoring CVSS 10.0
- ID
- 16386
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 21 Aug 2026, 6:03 PM
- Fetched
- 21 Aug 2026, 8:31 PM
- Provider
- The Hacker News
- Category
- security
- Original URL
- https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/cisco-patches-nine-crosswork-and-secure.html
- Source URL
- https://feeds.feedburner.com/TheHackersNews
Summary
- Score
- 2.5
- Created
- 21 Aug 2026, 8:32 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developers
What happened
Cisco patched nine vulnerabilities across Crosswork and Secure Workload products, five scoring CVSS 10.0, including SQL injection, missing authentication, and command injection flaws. All were found during internal testing with no known active exploitation, and fixes are available in Crosswork 7.2.1-SP, Secure Workload 3.10.9.1, and 4.0.4.16.
Why it matters
Only relevant if your infrastructure runs Cisco Crosswork or Secure Workload; if so, patch to 7.2.1-SP / 3.10.9.1 / 4.0.4.16 immediately given the CVSS 10.0 flaws. For everyone else, this is a routine vendor advisory with no active exploitation and no action required.
Discussion angle
Brief mention only: how to triage vendor CVE advisories when you don't run the affected stack—when to ignore versus when to check dependency trees.