CVE-2026-76481: Cisco Unified Communications Products Hardening Release: October 2026 - Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions…
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 30/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.46% (FIRST EPSS).
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
- According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
- Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).
Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, engineering teams for Cisco Emergency Responder, Cisco Prime Collaboration Deployment, Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM & Presence Service (Unified CM IM&P), Cisco Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME), and Cisco Unity Connection have conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-76481 are related to issues concerning improper handling of exceptional conditions that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-703.
- Published
- Oct 21, 2026
- Updated
- Nov 7, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.4% · 40th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-703
Report tools
Action score
30
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.4%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- yes
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- —
- CNA · cisco
- 7.5
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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- Not in KEV: no record of exploitation in the wild
- No public exploit code on record
- No fixed version yet
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What does it mean in your environment?
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Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (cisco). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Cisco Cisco Emergency Responder
- 14, 14SU1, 14SU2, 14SU3, 14SU3a, 15, 15SU1, 15SU1a, 14SU4, 15SU2, 15SU3, 14SU5 … (+2)affected
Cisco Cisco Unified Communications Manager
- 14, 14SU1, 14SU2, 14SU3, 15, 15SU1, 14SU4, 14SU4a, 15SU1a, 15SU2, 15.0.1.13010-1, 15.0.1.13011-1 … (+11)affected
Cisco Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service
- 14, 14SU1, 14SU2, 14SU2a, 14SU3, 15, 15SU1, 14SU4, 15SU2, 15SU3, 14SU5, 15SU4 … (+1)affected
Cisco Cisco Unity Connection
- 14, 14SU1, 14SU2, 14SU3, 14SU3a, 15, 15SU1, 14SU4, 15SU2, 15SU3, 14SU5, 15SU4 … (+1)affected
Same product
cisco: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2026-76474Cisco Unified Communications Products Hardening Release: October 2026 - Improper Authentication Vulnerabilities39Monitor
- CVE-2026-76473Cisco Unified Communications Products Hardening Release: October 2026 - Improper control of a resource through its lifetime.39Monitor
- CVE-2026-76475Cisco Unified Communications Products Hardening Release: October 2026 - Cross-site Scripting Vulnerabilities37Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-76477Oct 21, 2026 · Cisco Unified Communications Products Hardening Release: October 2026 - Injection Vulnerabilities35Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-76478Oct 21, 2026 · Cisco Unified Communications Products Hardening Release: October 2026 - Improper Access Control Vulnerabilities35Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-76479Oct 21, 2026 · Cisco Unified Communications Products Hardening Release: October 2026 - Path Traversal Vulnerabilities31Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)
Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.
- TR-26-1374 · Oct 22, 2026(Cisco Çoklu Ürün Güvenlik Bildirimi)
Not on record for this CVE: patch commit or PR link · researcher credit · variant or chain candidate · public bounty program.
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-703 · Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional ConditionsCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvd-secondary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.
Change log (2)
- SSVC exploitation— → none
- Exploit maturity— → none
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References
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Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.