As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, engineering teams for Cisco Emergency Responder, Cisco Prime Collaboration Deployment, Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM & Presence Service (Unified CM IM&P), Cisco Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME), and Cisco Unity Connection have conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-76481 are related to issues concerning improper handling of exceptional conditions that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-703.
History

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Cisco
Cisco cisco Unified Communications Manager
Cisco emergency Responder
Cisco unified Communications Manager Im And Presence Service
Cisco unity Connection
Vendors & Products Cisco
Cisco cisco Unified Communications Manager
Cisco emergency Responder
Cisco unified Communications Manager Im And Presence Service
Cisco unity Connection

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:15:00 +0000

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Description As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, engineering teams for Cisco Emergency Responder, Cisco Prime Collaboration Deployment, Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM & Presence Service (Unified CM IM&P), Cisco Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME), and Cisco Unity Connection have conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-76481 are related to issues concerning improper handling of exceptional conditions that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-703.
Title Cisco Unified Communications Products Hardening Release: October 2026 - Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions Vulnerabilities
Weaknesses CWE-703
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published: 2026-10-21T16:16:58.417Z

Updated: 2026-10-21T17:19:11.727Z

Reserved: 2026-08-19T12:02:03.639Z

Link: CVE-2026-76481

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-10-21T17:19:07.910

Modified: 2026-10-21T18:54:37.403

Link: CVE-2026-76481

cve-icon Redhat

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