Cisco ISE Flaw: Read-Only Admin to Root, No Workarounds
CVE-2026-20147
READ-ONLY
TO ROOT
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Threat Intelligence

Cisco ISE Flaw: Read-Only Admin to Root, No Workarounds

A Cisco ISE flaw lets a read-only admin escalate to root, with no workarounds available.
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SecureW2 Threat Intelligence
May 27, 2026
· 1 min read

A reported Cisco ISE flaw allows a read-only administrator to escalate to root, with no workarounds available.

  • The issue elevates a low-privilege read-only admin account to full root.
  • No workarounds are noted, so patching is the path to remediation.
  • Identity-and-access infrastructure itself is the exposed surface here.

This briefing is part of SecureW2’s Cybersecurity Intelligence series, which tracks identity, certificate, and network-security events for the teams who have to respond to them.

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SIGNAL's threat-intelligence desk tracks identity, certificate, and network-security events and translates them for the teams who have to respond. Reporting is independent of product marketing.

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