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title: "CVE-2026-76499: CVE-2026-76499"
description: "As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) 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-2026-76499 are related to improper neutralization issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-707. &nbsp;"
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-76499/
---

# CVE-2026-76499 CVE-2026-76499

As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) 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-2026-76499 are related to improper neutralization issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-707. &nbsp;

CVSS base score 9.8 /10

Critical

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

EPSS

0.31% chance of exploitation in 30 days

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-76499)

## Details

CVSS vector

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

Published

7 October 2026

Updated

15 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-707](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/707.html)

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-76499](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-76499)
- [https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-apic-UOXWtfh](https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-apic-UOXWtfh)

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