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NVD CRITICAL: CVE-2026-76498 — As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality,...

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Executive Summary

As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) 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-2026-76498 are related to imprope

Analysis

As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) 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-2026-76498 are related to improper access control issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-284. CVSS Score: 9.8. Published: 2026-10-07T17:17:01.670.

Indicators of Compromise (1)

CVE (1)
CVE-2026-76498
NVDMITRE CVE
Source Attribution

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

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