CVE-2026-76496
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Description
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.
Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
7.0
(v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Awaiting Analysis
Source identifier
Published
2026-10-21 17:19:09.177000
Last modified
2026-10-22 23:19:08.613000
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