CRITICAL 9.8 NVD ACTIVELY EXPLOITED

CVE-2026-76461

A vulnerability in the email parsing of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email Gateway could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitra

A vulnerability in the email parsing of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email Gateway could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation in the email parsing logic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted email message that contains malicious SQL statements through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary SQL statements, leading to command execution with root privileges on the underlying operating system.

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Published: 2026-09-14 · Source: NVD · Feed updated: 2026-09-15
This critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8 was published on 2026-09-14 via NVD. ⚠ This vulnerability is in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog — it is being actively exploited in the wild.

Risk Timeline

CVE Disclosed2026-09-14 · 0 days ago
CISA KEV — Actively ExploitedU.S. federal agencies required to patch · confirmed threat-actor activity

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