Cisco Catalyst 9800 (40/80/L) Wireless Controllers running IOS-XE 16.12
Cisco Systems, Inc. - FIPS 140 #4606
The Cisco Series Wireless Controllers, are a highly scalable and flexible platform that enables system-wide services for mission-critical wireless networking in medium-sized to large enterprises and campus environments.
Key facts
- Scheme
- FIPS 140
- Certificate
- 4606
- Standard
- FIPS 140-2
- Security level
- Level 1
- Status
- historical
- Vendor
- Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Module type
- Hardware
- Embodiment
- Multi-Chip Stand Alone
- Lab
- Acumen Security
- First validated
- September 26, 2023
- Versions
- 9800-40, 9800-80 and 9800-L; IOS-XE 16.12
- Caveat
- When installed, initialized and configured as specified in Section 11 of the Security Policy and operated in FIPS mode. This module contains the embedded module ACT2Lite validated to FIPS 140-2 under Cert. #3637 operating in FIPS mode.
Algorithms
- AES
- CVL
- DRBG
- ECDSA
- HMAC
- KAS
- KAS-SSC
- KTS
- RSA
- SHS
Algorithm families of the CAVP certificates listed for this module, plus post-quantum algorithms named in its documents.
CVEs that may affect this product
- CVE-2023-20198CRITICAL 10.0KEVEPSS 99.6%
- CVE-2023-44487HIGH 7.5KEVEPSS 100.0%
- CVE-2025-20363CRITICAL 9.0EPSS 6.9%
- CVE-2025-20154HIGH 8.6EPSS 0.5%
- CVE-2024-20271HIGH 8.6EPSS 0.6%
- CVE-2022-20920HIGH 7.7EPSS 0.9%
- CVE-2020-3444HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.5%
- CVE-2023-20076HIGH 7.2EPSS 1.5%
- CVE-2021-34729MEDIUM 6.7EPSS 0.4%
- CVE-2023-20056MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 0.3%
- CVE-2021-1382MEDIUM 6.0EPSS 0.7%
- CVE-2021-1625MEDIUM 5.8EPSS 0.9%
- CVE-2019-12660MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 0.3%
- CVE-2021-1616MEDIUM 4.7EPSS 1.2%
- CVE-2023-20097MEDIUM 4.6EPSS 0.2%
Related CVEs and certificate references are automated matches by sec-certs, not reviewed by humans: treat them as "may be affected" and verify before acting.
Certificates it builds on
- 3637
Certificate ids found in this certificate's documents (automated extraction).
Documents and sources
Source: sec-certs.org (CRoCS, Masaryk University), from NIST CMVP and the Common Criteria Portal - dataset of September 21, 2026 - synced October 15, 2026
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