Cisco Security Advisories guidance
Vendor revision: Oct 21, 2026To remediate the vulnerabilities that were disclosed on October 21, 2026, Cisco strongly recommends that customers upgrade to the fixed software that is indicated in the advisories.
Vulnerability intelligence
CVE-2026-76477 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 8.8. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
To remediate the vulnerabilities that were disclosed on October 21, 2026, Cisco strongly recommends that customers upgrade to the fixed software that is indicated in the advisories.
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.
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, engineering teams for Cisco Emergency Responder, Cisco Prime Collaboration Deployment, Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM & Presence Service (Unified CM IM&P), Cisco Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME), and Cisco Unity Connection have conducted a comprehensive internal security review.
This review resulted in software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities.
The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-76477 are related to issues concerning improper neutralization of special elements used in an SQL command that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Base CWE-89.
Source: NVD
Cisco Security Advisories · Updated Oct 21, 2026
These vulnerabilities affect the following Cisco products, regardless of device configuration:
Emergency Responder
Prime Collaboration Deployment
Unified CM
Unified CM IM&P
Unified CM SME
Unity Connection
For information about which Cisco software releases are vulnerable, see the Fixed Software section of this advisory.
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.
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 Emergency Responder, Prime Collaboration Deployment, Unified CM, Unified CM IM&P, Unified CM SME, and Unity Connection Release | First Fixed Release |
|---|---|
14 | Migrate to a fixed release. |
15 | 15SU5 |
The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) validates only the affected and fixed release information that is documented in this advisory.
The Cisco PSIRT is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerabilities that are described in this advisory.