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Cisco Expressway Series Security Hardening Release: October 2026

High 8 CVEs Published Oct 21, 2026 at 4:00 PM UTC

Summary

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 a software hardening release that addresses multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities.

These vulnerabilities were found during internal testing and are not known to be actively exploited. To assist customers in patching and streamline the disclosure process, Cisco has grouped these issues by their underlying vulnerability class - Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) - and assigned a single Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures identifier (CVE ID) to each CWE grouping.

Cisco Expressway Series refers to Cisco Expressway Core (Expressway-C) devices and Cisco Expressway Edge (Expressway-E) devices.

Note: Cisco may publish separate security advisories that provide additional details about individual vulnerabilities that are addressed in this release.

Cisco has released a software update that addresses these vulnerabilities. There are no workarounds that address these vulnerabilities.

This advisory is part of a group of advisories. For a complete list of the advisories and links to them, see Cisco Advance Notification for Publication of October 21, 2026, Security Advisories.

Products covered

A separate affected-products list was not included in the collected bulletin.

Remediation

There are no workarounds that address these vulnerabilities.

To remediate these vulnerabilities and avoid future exposure as described in this advisory, Cisco strongly recommends that customers upgrade to the fixed software indicated in this advisory.

Fixed Releases

In the following table, the left column lists Cisco software releases. The right column indicates whether a release is affected by the vulnerabilities that are described in this advisory and the first release that includes the fix for these vulnerabilities. Customers are advised to upgrade to an appropriate fixed software release as indicated in this section.

Cisco Expressway Series Release

First Fixed Release

X14 and earlier

Migrate to a fixed release.

X15.5.3 and earlier

X15.5.20

The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) validates only the affected and fixed release information that is documented in this advisory.

CVEs in this advisory 8

Updates

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