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NVD HIGH: CVE-2026-76459 — As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality,...

·Source: NIST NVD

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Executive Summary

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-2026-76459 are related to out-of-bounds write issues that are grouped under

Analysis

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-2026-76459 are related to out-of-bounds write issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-787. CVSS Score: 8.8. Published: 2026-10-07T17:16:58.553.

Indicators of Compromise (1)

CVE (1)
CVE-2026-76459
NVDMITRE CVE
Source Attribution

Originally published by NIST NVD on Oct 7, 2026. Verified by: NIST.

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