As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager 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-2026-76440 are related to path traversal issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-23.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00453.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
Cisco Cisco Secure Email unknown
Version Status Constraints
14.0.0-698 affected —
13.5.1-277 affected —
13.0.0-392 affected —
14.2.0-620 affected —
13.0.5-007 affected —
13.5.4-038 affected —
14.2.1-020 affected —
14.3.0-032 affected —
15.0.0-104 affected —
15.0.1-030 affected —
15.5.0-048 affected —
15.5.1-055 affected —
15.5.2-018 affected —
16.0.0-050 affected —
15.0.3-002 affected —
16.0.0-054 affected —
15.5.3-022 affected —
16.0.1-017 affected —
15.5.4-012 affected —
16.0.4-016 affected —
15.0.5-016 affected —
16.0.2-112 affected —
16.0.3-044 affected —
15.5.5-014 affected —
Cisco Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager unknown
Version Status Constraints
13.6.2-023 affected —
13.6.2-078 affected —
13.0.0-249 affected —
13.0.0-277 affected —
13.8.1-052 affected —
13.8.1-068 affected —
13.8.1-074 affected —
14.0.0-404 affected —
12.8.1-002 affected —
14.1.0-227 affected —
13.6.1-201 affected —
14.2.0-203 affected —
14.2.0-212 affected —
12.8.1-021 affected —
13.8.1-108 affected —
14.2.0-224 affected —
14.3.0-120 affected —
15.0.0-334 affected —
15.5.1-024 affected —
15.5.1-029 affected —
15.5.2-005 affected —
16.0.0-195 affected —
15.5.3-017 affected —
16.0.1-010 affected —
15.0.1-035 affected —
16.0.2-088 affected —
15.5.4-007 affected —
15.0.2-007 affected —
16.0.4-010 affected —
16.0.3-016 affected —
16.5.0-429 affected —
15.5.5-006 affected —

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References
Link Providers
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-esa-dfCrfXkm cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/Media/News/item/blog/2026/06/16/Preserving-Vulnerability-Level-Identification cve-icon
History

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Cisco
Cisco secure Email
Cisco secure Email And Web Manager
Vendors & Products Cisco
Cisco secure Email
Cisco secure Email And Web Manager

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
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Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager 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-2026-76440 are related to path traversal issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-23.
Title Cisco Secure Email Gateway Security Hardening Release
Weaknesses CWE-23
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-15T17:03:57.728Z

Reserved: 2026-08-19T12:02:03.635Z

Link: CVE-2026-76440

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-15T17:03:57.728Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-09-14T17:17:50.520

Modified: 2026-09-15T18:19:12.950

Link: CVE-2026-76440

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-17T20:50:28Z

Weaknesses