--- title: "CVE-2026-76472: CVE-2026-76472" description: "As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco networking 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-76472 are related to issues with improper neutralization of special elements that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-74." url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-76472/ --- # CVE-2026-76472 CVE-2026-76472 As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco networking 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-76472 are related to issues with improper neutralization of special elements that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-74. CVSS base score 8.8 /10 High CISA KEV Not listed Public exploit None known EPSS 0.12% chance of exploitation in 30 days [View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-76472) ## Details CVSS vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Published 7 October 2026 Updated 15 October 2026 Weakness [CWE-74](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/74.html) ## References - [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-76472](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-76472) - [https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-meraki-os-drbEX9GH](https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-meraki-os-drbEX9GH) [← All CVEs](https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/) ## What this record can't tell you - Whether you run the affected software, and where - Whether an attacker can actually reach and exploit it - The misconfigurations that never get a CVE number - What it would cost the business, ranked into what to fix first Panop answers these inside your environment, for this CVE and every other finding. [Book a demo](https://panop.io/demo)