critical Known exploitedREV. 01

CVE-2026-76504Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager — Admin Authentication Bypass

Cisco Catalyst software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) Manager mishandles address encoding in web requests. An unauthenticated remote attacker can slip past an authentication rule and reach the programming interface as the admin user.

YOUR NEXT MOVE

Apply the guidance in Cisco advisory cisco-sa-sdwan-webauth-xr8beuuU to every SD-WAN Manager.

Read the risk

THE VITAL STATS
CVSS score
9.8/ 10
CVSS v3.1
EPSS probability
38.9%
Likelihood of exploitation
Attack complexity
Low
Conditions needed to exploit
Known exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
CVE published
2026-09-30
Added to KEV
2026-09-30
CISA due date
2026-10-03
Exploit published
Not recorded
Confidence
high
Kill chain
initial access
MITRE ATT&CK
—
Severity
critical

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

Attacker needsNetwork access to the Manager's programming interface. No account is needed.

Behind the card

3 REFERENCES
Field-level provenanceTRACE THE SOURCES +

Which source supports each field, when it was retrieved, and who extracted it.

FieldsSourceRetrievedExtractorConfidence
cvss, exploitation.attack_complexity, exploitation.exploit_available, published_at, referencesnvd.nist.gov2026-11-05scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
exploitation.known_exploited, exploitation.kev_added, exploitation.kev_duecisa.gov2026-11-05scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
epssapi.first.org2026-11-05scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
title, subtitle, summary, severity, remediation, mitre_attack, kill_chain, recommended_action, confidence, tags, exploitation.prerequisitesnvd.nist.gov2026-11-05claude-codehigh

Printing history

THE RECORD
  1. r1Initial base card

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