CVE-2026-76299
9.9 CRITICALPublished 2026-10-21 · Updated 2026-10-22
AI risk analysis
- Summary
- Improper access control in a Cisco product allows authenticated users to bypass intended restrictions, potentially leading to unauthorised access to sensitive data or functions.
- Exploitability
- Exploitation requires low-privilege authentication and no user interaction; however, the exact attack vector is not disclosed, making precise exploitation difficulty hard to assess.
- Blast radius
- If exploited, attackers could gain high-level access to system resources, compromising confidentiality, integrity, and availability across the affected system.
- Detection
- No reliable host or network indicator is derivable from the published description.
- Prioritized remediation
- Apply the Cisco software hardening release that addresses this vulnerability; the specific fixed version is not named in the description, so no exact patch level can be provided.
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NVD description
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, Cisco has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in a software hardening release that addresses multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-76299 are related to improper access control and are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-284.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-284
All references
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