Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Input size validation
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 15, 2026
Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager ship a hardening release that fixes multiple internally discovered input-validation defects grouped under CVE-2026-76442 (CWE-1284, improper validation of specified quantity in input). Successful exploitation by an unauthenticated remote attacker degrades availability (CVSS 3.1 7.5, AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N, C:N/I:N/A:H) on the affected appliances, potentially interrupting mail flow and administrative access. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV; CISA's SSVC assessment rates exploitation as none and automatable as no, so weaponization is not currently expected.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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CVSS VectorVendor: cisco
DescriptionCVE.org
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager 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-2026-76442 are related to issues with improper validation of specified quantity in input that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-1284.
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Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
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