Cisco IoT Field Network REST API Insufficient Input Validation Vulnerability
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- SQL injection
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-89.
Summary
A vulnerability in the REST API of Cisco IoT Field Network Director (FND) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain access to the back-end database of an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of REST API requests that are made to an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by crafting malicious API requests to the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain access to the back-end database of the affected device.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2020-26075
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-7fm5-2jq2-jjhm
References
More Cisco Iot Field Network Director vulnerabilities
- TI-2023-23979 The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2020-03077 Cisco IoT Field Network Director Unauthenticated REST API Vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2019-01577 Cisco IoT Field Network Director TLS Renegotiation Denial of Service Vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2019-01270 Cisco IoT Field Network Director Resource Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2020-15928 Cisco IoT Field Network Director Information Disclosure Vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2020-15924 Cisco IoT Field Network Director SOAP API Authorization Bypass Vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.7
Sources
- CVE-2020-26075 · CVE Program
- CVE-2020-26075 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-7fm5-2jq2-jjhm · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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