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Attackers Exploit Second Cisco Firewall VPN Zero-Day Since August

·Source: SecurityWeek

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Executive Summary

Cisco on Wednesday released fixes for an exploited vulnerability affecting its Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) software. Tracked as CVE-2026-76418 and assigned a CVSS score of 8.6, the bug resides in the Remote Access SSL VPN service. Attackers can exploit it remotely, without authenticating, to force the device […] The post Attacker

Analysis

Cisco on Wednesday released fixes for an exploited vulnerability affecting its Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) software. Tracked as CVE-2026-76418 and assigned a CVSS score of 8.6, the bug resides in the Remote Access SSL VPN service. Attackers can exploit it remotely, without authenticating, to force the device […] The post Attackers Exploit Second Cisco Firewall VPN Zero-Day Since August appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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CVE (1)
CVE-2026-76418
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Source Attribution

Originally published by SecurityWeek on Oct 29, 2026.

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