CVE-2026-76496

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-2026-76496 are related to issues concerning improper link resolutions that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Base CWE-59.

CVSS v3 7.0 HIGH

7.0^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.0 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity HIGH

Privileges Required LOW

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-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 23:19

NVD link : CVE-2026-76496

Mitre link : CVE-2026-76496

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-76496

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-59

Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

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