Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers (hardware) End of Life (EOL) Dates & Support Timeline

Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers (hardware) lifecycle status — the real story

Cisco Small Business RV Series routers are the VPN routers and firewalls sold to small offices and branches: the RV340/RV345 and RV160/RV260 generations, the RV320/RV325 and RV042/RV042G dual-WAN routers, the RV110W/RV130/RV215W wireless models and the RV132W/RV134W DSL models. Cycles on this page are router models. Cisco has ended the line: every model has an End-of-Sale and End-of-Life bulletin and Cisco names no replacement for the newest generation. Every date is taken from Cisco's bulletins (public, read in-browser on 2026-09-03; cisco.com blocks automated fetches, so the verify registry is frozen to manual re-reads and each cycle records its bulletin). Field mapping: support is Cisco's End-of-Sale Date; eol is Cisco's Last Date of Support; the announcement date and the End of Software Maintenance Releases and Vulnerability Support date are carried as extra fields.

The dates that matter now. The RV160, RV160W, RV260, RV260W, RV260P, RV340W and RV345P reach their Last Date of Support on September 30, 2026 (bulletin EOL14500: end of sale September 15, 2021, end of software maintenance and vulnerability support September 15, 2022). The RV340 and RV345 follow on October 31, 2026 (end of sale October 28, 2021, end of software maintenance and vulnerability support October 28, 2022). In both cases security fixes stopped four years before the support date, so a router on the newest RV generation has had no vulnerability fixes since 2022 whatever its support status says. Already past support: the RV132W and RV134W on October 31, 2025; the RV320, RV325, RV042 and RV042G on January 31, 2025; the RV110W, RV130, RV130W and RV215W on November 30, 2024; and the RV082 on May 31, 2021.

The KEV record is where this line becomes a warning rather than a calendar. CISA's catalog lists nine exploited CVEs against the RV series, and the most recent, CVE-2023-20118 added March 3, 2025, is covered by Cisco advisory cisco-sa-sbr042-multi-vuln-ej76Pke5, which names the RV016, RV042, RV042G, RV082, RV320 and RV325 as vulnerable and states, in Cisco's words, that Cisco has not released and will not release software updates to address the vulnerabilities described in this advisory. Every one of those models with a bulletin on this page is past its Last Date of Support. The RV016 is named in that advisory but Cisco's RV listing carries no separate end-of-life bulletin for it, so it is not modelled here.

Under CISA BOD 26-02 every RV model past its Last Date of Support is an end-of-support edge device, and from October 31, 2026 that is the entire product line.

Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers (hardware) release and support pattern

Of the 20 release lines tracked, 11 are past end of life and 9 are still within support. The next scheduled end of life is RV345P on September 30, 2026 — 25 days from this build. The longest-supported line currently published is RV340, to October 31, 2026.

Computed from the tracked release data at every build — the figures above are the dates in the table, restated, not an editorial estimate.

Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers (hardware) security intelligence

CISA KEV history: Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers (hardware) is named in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog 9 times, most recently on 2025-03-03. Derived from CISA's live catalog at every build.

What does Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers (hardware) end of life mean for your organization?

When a version of Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers (hardware) reaches end of life, the maintainers stop issuing security patches. Vulnerabilities discovered after this date are publicly disclosed on the National Vulnerability Database, exploit code appears on GitHub, and your systems remain permanently exposed.

The CVE blind spot: Most vulnerability scanners check for known CVEs but do not flag the accumulation of unpatched vulnerabilities in EOL software. With a zero-day, nobody knows about the vulnerability. With EOL software, the vulnerability is public — listed, rated, and often weaponized — but no patch will ever exist. This is the most dangerous gap in enterprise security posture.

Organizations running EOL Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers (hardware) should treat it as a vulnerability class in their risk register, apply compensating controls (network segmentation, enhanced monitoring, access restriction), and prioritize migration to a supported version.

Your options when Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers (hardware) reaches end of life

There are four realistic paths. Which one is right depends far more on how long the system needs to keep running than on the version you are on today.

How to choose, in one question: how many more years does this system need to run? Under a year, extended support (where it exists) is usually cheaper than an emergency migration. One to three years, migrate — support purchased repeatedly costs more than doing the project once, and the project only gets harder as the version ages. Indefinitely, migrate now and plan the next migration before it surprises you.

Worth saying plainly, because vendors selling extended support rarely will: extended support is often the more expensive choice over a multi-year horizon. It is the right answer when a deadline is genuinely unreachable, not as a default. Compare the annual fee against the one-time cost of migrating before committing to either.

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Extended Support Options

If you cannot migrate immediately, extended support vendors provide continued security patches for EOL Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers (hardware) versions. This is a bridge, not a permanent solution — plan your migration in parallel.

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