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CVE-2026-76481

Cisco Unified Communications Products Hardening Release: October 2026 - Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions Vulnerabilities

No known exploitation. EPSS puts it in the 39th percentile. No fix published yet.

CVSS 3.17.5HighEPSS percentile39th0.5% chance in 30 daysCISA KEVNot listedNo confirmed exploitation
No public exploit knownFixNone yetNo fix or workaround published

Published Updated Sources: CVE.org, NVD

NVD CVE.org

What to do

No fixed build or workaround is published yet. Limit exposure and watch for a patch.

  • Cisco Emergency ResponderAffected: 14Upgrade to: not statedAffected: 14SU1Upgrade to: not statedAffected: 14SU2Upgrade to: not statedAffected: 14SU3Upgrade to: not stated + 10 more branchesStated by: CVE record
  • Cisco Unified Communications ManagerAffected: 14Upgrade to: not statedAffected: 14SU1Upgrade to: not statedAffected: 14SU2Upgrade to: not statedAffected: 14SU3Upgrade to: not stated + 19 more branchesStated by: CVE record
  • Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence ServiceAffected: 14Upgrade to: not statedAffected: 14SU1Upgrade to: not statedAffected: 14SU2Upgrade to: not statedAffected: 14SU2aUpgrade to: not stated + 9 more branchesStated by: CVE record
  • Cisco Unity ConnectionAffected: 14Upgrade to: not statedAffected: 14SU1Upgrade to: not statedAffected: 14SU2Upgrade to: not statedAffected: 14SU3Upgrade to: not stated + 9 more branchesStated by: CVE record

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What it is

From the CVE record

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.

In plain language

No plain-language summary for this CVE yet.

Exploitation

Where each signal puts this CVE on the scale from published to confirmed exploited.

EPSS39th
CISA KEV

Not in the catalog. CISA has not confirmed exploitation.

Public exploits

No public exploit or proof of concept found in the sources we track.

EPSS

0.5% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the 39th percentile of scored CVEs.

Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST.org. A probability, not a confirmation.

Lifecycle

4 events over 0 days, from the signal feeds we watch.

  1. Publishedweakness classified, record updated, record updated

Affected products

Technical detail

CVSS 3.1 vector

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Scored 7.5 by NVD.

How it is reached

  • Attack Vector NetworkExploitable remotely over the network without any special conditions
  • Attack Complexity LowNo special conditions — the attack can be reliably reproduced
  • Privileges Required NoneNo authentication required — anyone can exploit this
  • User Interaction NoneNo user interaction needed — fully automated exploitation

Scope

  • Scope UnchangedImpact is limited to the vulnerable component itself

Impact if exploited

  • Confidentiality NoneNo confidentiality impact
  • Integrity NoneNo integrity impact
  • Availability HighTotal denial of service — the component is completely unavailable

Weaknesses

Sources

References in the record

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