Critical 9.8Published Sep 14, 2026

CVE-2026-76440Cisco Secure Email Gateway Security Hardening Release

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 05:50 UTC)

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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-2026-76440 are related to path traversal issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-23.

CVSS: 9.8 CRITICAL (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-23
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: cisco
NVD analysis: Awaiting Analysis
Record last updated: Sep 15, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Cisco Cisco Secure Email cisco:secure_email (from the name)	14.0.0-698; 13.5.1-277; 13.0.0-392; 14.2.0-620; 13.0.5-007; 13.5.4-038; 14.2.1-020; 14.3.0-032; and 16 more ranges	CNA record
Cisco Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager cisco:secure_email_and_web_manager (from the name)	13.6.2-023; 13.6.2-078; 13.0.0-249; 13.0.0-277; 13.8.1-052; 13.8.1-068; 13.8.1-074; 14.0.0-404; and 24 more ranges	CNA record

References

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-esa-dfCrfXkm
https://www.cve.org/Media/News/item/blog/2026/06/16/Preserving-Vulnerability-Level-Identification

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