Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessReach ISE/ISE-PIC over network
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ExploitSend crafted request to PRRT service
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ExecutionBypass missing authentication check
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ImpactRetrieve sensitive configuration data
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A07:2025 - Authentication Failures
ASVS 5.0
V6 - Authentication Authentication required for critical functions
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Initial Access The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires network reachability to the Policy Runtime Repository Table (PRRT) internal service on Cisco ISE or ISE-PIC (affected: ISE 3.4.0 through 3.4 Patch 6, ISE 3.5.0 through 3.5 Patch 3, and ISE-PIC 3.4.0/3.5.0). No authentication, user interaction, or non-default configuration is stated as required (CWE-306 missing authentication; AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N). The principal limiting factor is that the vulnerable service is an internal service - if ISE management/internal interfaces are segmented and not exposed to untrusted networks, an attacker cannot reach the PRRT endpoint, sharply reducing real-world exposure. Impact is limited to disclosure of sensitive configuration information (C:L); no data modification or denial of service results. |
| Impact | This is a moderate-severity information-disclosure flaw, not a critical one, and the signals are internally consistent. The vendor CVSS of 5.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N) correctly captures an unauthenticated, network-reachable weakness (CWE-306, missing authentication on the Policy Runtime Repository Table service) whose only impact is partial confidentiality - no integrity or availability effect. There is no EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public exploit identified at time of analysis, so this is not a demonstrated priority for active exploitation. The main thing that keeps it from being trivially low-risk is the PR:N/AC:L combination on a ubiquitous enterprise NAC appliance: an unauthenticated request leaking configuration data is easy to automate if the affected internal service is exposed. However, the C:L (partial confidentiality, no I/A) caps the real-world damage to reconnaissance-grade config disclosure rather than device takeover. No signals conflict; the low CVSS despite an unauthenticated vector is explained honestly by the narrow C:L-only impact. Treat as a patch-in-normal-cycle item unless the ISE admin/internal interfaces are network-exposed, in which case prioritize higher because disclosed config could seed follow-on attacks. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An unauthenticated attacker who can reach the affected Cisco ISE / ISE-PIC device over the network sends a crafted request to the Policy Runtime Repository Table (PRRT) internal service, which fails to require authentication. The service responds with sensitive configuration information that the attacker can use for reconnaissance and to plan follow-on attacks. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 16, 2026
Missing authentication on the internal Policy Runtime Repository Table (PRRT) service in Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and the Cisco ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to retrieve sensitive configuration information from an affected device. The flaw is an instance of CWE-306 (missing authentication for a critical function) and carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N), reflecting confidentiality-only impact with no modification or denial-of-service effect. Affected releases span ISE 3.4.0 through 3.4 Patch 6, ISE 3.5.0 through 3.5 Patch 3, and ISE-PIC 3.4.0/3.5.0; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis. Real-world risk is tempered by the fact that the vulnerable PRRT service is internal, so exploitation depends entirely on an attacker gaining network reachability to that endpoint - segmentation of ISE management and internal interfaces sharply reduces exposure.
RemediationAI
No exact fixed release is specified in the available input data, so administrators should consult the Cisco advisory at https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ise-multiauth-bypass-sgD2HbL4 for the vendor-designated fixed software and upgrade ISE and ISE-PIC accordingly, applying the corresponding 3.4 or 3.5 maintenance patch once identified; patch status is therefore best described as patch available per the vendor advisory rather than confirmed against a specific version in this dataset. Because the vulnerable PRRT service is an internal component and the assessed exploit path is AV:N/PR:N, the most effective compensating control is to ensure that service is never reachable from untrusted networks: enforce firewall and ACL rules that permit PRRT traffic only from ISE node-to-node and administrative subnets, and keep management, internal, and data interfaces on separate, segmented VLANs or security zones, which contains exposure without functional side effects as long as legitimate inter-node ISE communication is preserved. Monitoring and logging of anomalous requests to internal ISE services provides detection while the patch cycle is completed, and any additional restrictions should be validated in a lab to avoid breaking cluster replication or pxGrid-dependent integrations.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Cisco ISE is the policy, posture, and identity-control plane for enterprise networks, and ISE-PIC performs passive identity collection for pxGrid-based integrations; both run a stack of internal services that normally communicate only within the deployment. The Policy Runtime Repository Table (PRRT) service is one such internal component, and CVE-2026-76444 stems from CWE-306, meaning the service exposes functionality without enforcing any authentication check, so a crafted request reaches sensitive configuration data directly. The assessed vector, CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N, confirms that no privileges or user interaction are required, that the attack is network-reachable, and that the consequence is limited to low-confidentiality disclosure of configuration information - there is no integrity or availability impact and no scope change. The CPE identifiers cpe:2.3:a:cisco:cisco_identity_services_engine_software:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* and cpe:2.3:a:cisco:cisco_ise_passive_identity_connector:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* confirm that both the full ISE appliance software and the passive identity connector are in scope. Because the service is internal by design, the practical attack surface is defined by network topology rather than by any weakness in the authentication mechanism itself, which is simply absent rather than bypassable.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Missing authentication (CWE-306) allows an unauthenticated network request (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) that discloses only partial configuration data (C:L), with no integrity or availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (cisco).
CVSS VectorVendor: cisco
DescriptionCVE.org
A vulnerability in an internal service of Cisco ISE and Cisco ISE-PIC could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to retrieve sensitive configuration information from an affected device.
This vulnerability is due to missing authentication on the Policy Runtime Repository Table (PRRT) service. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted request to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to obtain sensitive configuration information from the affected device.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
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EUVD-2026-81152
GHSA-9ppp-pq44-73v7
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
VulDB
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