CVE-2026-76440

As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager 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-2026-76440 are related to path traversal issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-23.

CVSS v3 9.8 CRITICAL

9.8^/10

CVSS v3 : CRITICAL

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-esa-dfCrfXkm
https://www.cve.org/Media/News/item/blog/2026/06/16/Preserving-Vulnerability-Level-Identification

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-09-14 17:17

Updated : 2026-09-15 18:19

NVD link : CVE-2026-76440

Mitre link : CVE-2026-76440

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-76440

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-23

Relative Path Traversal

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