Cisco Nexus Dashboard Pathname Traversal Vulnerability (CWE-22)
CVE-2026-76409 Published on September 16, 2026
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Software Security Hardening Release September 2026 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Nexus Dashboard engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in a software hardening release that addresses multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities.
The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-76409 are related to improper limitation of a pathname issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-22.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2026-76409 can be exploited with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
What is a Directory traversal Vulnerability?
The software uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the software does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory.
CVE-2026-76409 has been classified to as a Directory traversal vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-76409
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Affected Versions
Cisco Nexus Dashboard:- Version 2.1(1d) is affected.
- Version 2.1(1e) is affected.
- Version 2.1(2d) is affected.
- Version 2.2(1h) is affected.
- Version 2.2(1e) is affected.
- Version 2.2(2d) is affected.
- Version 2.1(2f) is affected.
- Version 2.3(1c) is affected.
- Version 2.3(2b) is affected.
- Version 2.3(2c) is affected.
- Version 2.3(2d) is affected.
- Version 2.3(2e) is affected.
- Version 3.0(1f) is affected.
- Version 3.0(1i) is affected.
- Version 3.1(1k) is affected.
- Version 3.1(1l) is affected.
- Version 3.2(1e) is affected.
- Version 3.2(1i) is affected.
- Version 3.3(1a) is affected.
- Version 3.3(1b) is affected.
- Version 3.3(2b) is affected.
- Version 4.0(1i) is affected.
- Version 3.3(2g) is affected.
- Version 3.2(2f) is affected.
- Version 3.2(2g) is affected.
- Version 3.2(2m) is affected.
- Version 3.1(1n) is affected.
- Version 4.1(1g) is affected.
- Version 4.2.1 is affected.