CVE-2026-76456
HIGH
8,6
Source: [email protected]
Attack Vector: network
Attack Complexity: low
Privileges Required: none
User Interaction: none
Scope: changed
Confidentiality: none
Integrity: none
Availability: high
Description
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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.
20
Improper Input Validation
StableCommon Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Availability
Confidentiality
Integrity
Potential Impacts:
Dos: Crash, Exit, Or Restart
Dos: Resource Consumption (Cpu)
Dos: Resource Consumption (Memory)
Read Memory
Read Files Or Directories
Modify Memory
Execute Unauthorized Code Or Commands
Applicable Platforms
Technologies:
AI/ML
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/c…