CVE-2026-76456

As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco NX-OS engineering team 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-2026-76456 are related to improper input validation of special elements used in a command issue that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-20.

CVSS v3 8.6 HIGH

8.6^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 4.0

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope CHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-nxosw1-cWzSbtR

Configurations

No configuration.

History

07 Oct 2026, 17:16

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-10-07 17:16

Updated : 2026-10-08 20:08

NVD link : CVE-2026-76456

Mitre link : CVE-2026-76456

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-76456

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-20

Improper Input Validation

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