CVE-2026-76498
9.8 CRITICALPublished 2026-10-07 · Updated 2026-10-08
AI risk analysis
- Summary
- CVE-2026-76498 involves improper access control issues, allowing unauthorized access to sensitive data and functionalities within the Cisco APIC.
- Exploitability
- Exploitation is relatively straightforward given the lack of preconditions, making it a high-risk vulnerability.
- Blast radius
- If exploited, this vulnerability could lead to complete data compromise and control over the affected APIC instances.
- Detection
- No reliable host or network indicator is derivable from the published description.
- Prioritized remediation
- Upgrade to the latest version of the Cisco APIC software as soon as possible.
Analysis generated locally by qwen2.5:7b-instruct (no data left the box). AI-assisted — verify against primary sources before acting.
NVD description
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-76498 are related to improper access control issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-284.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-284
All references
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