---
id: "CVE-2026-76494"
kind: "vulnerability"
aliases: ["CVE-2026-76494"]
title: "Cisco Expressway: code injection flaws allow code execution, patched in hardening releases"
severity: "high"
cvss: 7.8
epss: 0.00152
exploited: false
status: "open"
category: "infrastructure"
products: []
ecosystems: []
tags: ["cisco-expressway", "infrastructure", "self-hosted", "video-collaboration"]
not_affected_if: []
published_at: "2026-10-21T17:19:08+00:00"
first_seen_at: "2026-10-23T21:57:29+00:00"
updated_at: "2026-10-25T03:08:21+00:00"
sources: [{"source": "nvd", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-76494", "first_seen_at": "2026-10-23T21:57:29+00:00"}, {"source": "epss", "url": "https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2026-76494", "first_seen_at": "2026-10-24T13:15:54+00:00"}]
---

# Cisco Expressway: code injection flaws allow code execution, patched in hardening releases

Cisco Expressway Series contains code injection flaws classified as CWE-94, which are tracked under CVE-2026-76494. The sources do not state the exact attacker capability beyond the CWE, but CWE-94 issues generally let an attacker run code on the affected system.

_Summary, check and fix written by a model from the sources; labelled as such._

## How to check

- unknown

## Fix

- Move Cisco Expressway Series to the fixed release named in Cisco's advisory for CVE-2026-76494 (version unknown from the sources)

## Timeline

- 2026-10-23T21:57:29+00:00 nvd https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-76494
- 2026-10-24T13:15:54+00:00 epss https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2026-76494

## From the sources

As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Expressway Series software 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-2026-76494 are related to issues concerning code injections that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Base CWE-94.

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