As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco NX-OS engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in a software hardening release that addresses multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-76457 are related to out-of-bounds read issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-125.
History

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Cisco cisco Nx-os System Software In Aci Mode
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Description As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco NX-OS engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in a software hardening release that addresses multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-76457 are related to out-of-bounds read issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-125.
Title Cisco NX-OS Software Security Hardening Release: October 2026 - Out-of-bounds Read Vulnerabilities
Weaknesses CWE-125
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.6, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published: 2026-10-07T16:15:22.604Z

Updated: 2026-10-07T17:45:39.983Z

Reserved: 2026-08-19T12:02:03.637Z

Link: CVE-2026-76457

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-10-07T17:45:28.569Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-10-07T17:16:58.020

Modified: 2026-10-08T20:08:45.857

Link: CVE-2026-76457

cve-icon Redhat

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