Cisco NX-OS Software Security Hardening Release: October 2026 - Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions Vulnerabilities (Cisco Cisco NX-OS Software)

CVE-2026-76458
HIGH 8.6

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.28 % · percentile 20 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Description

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-2026-76458 are related to improper handling of exceptional conditions issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-703.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-703 — Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:Hcisco
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco NX-OS Softwareaffected 8.2(5) ; affected 7.3(5)D1(1) ; affected 8.4(2) ; affected 8.4(3) ; affected 9.2(3) ; affected 8.2(1)
Cisco · Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Modeaffected 15.2(1g) ; affected 15.2(2e) ; affected 15.2(2f) ; affected 15.2(2g) ; affected 15.2(2h) ; affected 15.2(3f)
Cisco · Cisco Unified Computing System (Managed)affected 4.0(1a) ; affected 4.1(1d) ; affected 4.0(4f) ; affected 4.0(4c) ; affected 4.0(2b) ; affected 4.1(2a)

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD