CVE-2026-76493

As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Expressway Series software 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-2026-76493 are related to issues concerning uncaught exceptions that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Base CWE-248.

CVSS v3 7.5 HIGH

7.5^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

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

Configurations

No configuration.

History

21 Oct 2026, 17:19

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-10-21 17:19

Updated : 2026-10-22 14:17

NVD link : CVE-2026-76493

Mitre link : CVE-2026-76493

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-76493

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-248

Uncaught Exception

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