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CVE-2026-76473

9.8 CRITICAL

Published 2026-10-21 · Updated 2026-10-22

AI risk analysis

Summary
Improper control of a resource through its lifetime (CWE-74) in multiple Cisco Unified Communications products allows unauthenticated remote attackers to potentially compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Exploitability
Exploitation is likely straightforward due to network accessibility (AV:N), no authentication required (PR:N), and no user interaction (UI:N), though specific technical details are not disclosed.
Blast radius
Successful exploitation could lead to full system compromise including data exfiltration, unauthorized modification, and service disruption across affected Unified Communications platforms.
Detection
No reliable host or network indicator is derivable from the published description.
Prioritized remediation
Upgrade to the fixed software versions specified in Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sa-cucm-prim-coll-dep-cwe74-20260723; exact patch levels are not provided in the description, so apply the latest security hardening release per Cisco's advisory.
resource-managementcwe74unified-communicationshardening

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NVD description

As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, engineering teams for Cisco Emergency Responder, Cisco Prime Collaboration Deployment, Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM & Presence Service (Unified CM IM&P), Cisco Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME), and Cisco Unity Connection have conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-76473 are related to issues concerning improper control of a resource through its lifetime that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Class CWE-74.  

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-74

All references

Source data: NVD (nvd.nist.gov), public domain. Exploit-DB.ai adds local AI analysis for defensive use only.

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