NX-OS OOB Write (CWE-787) Vulnerability
CVE-2026-76459 Published on October 7, 2026

Cisco NX-OS Software Security Hardening Release: October 2026 - Out-of-bounds Write Vulnerabilities
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco NX-OS 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-2026-76459 are related to out-of-bounds write issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-787.

NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2026-76459 can be exploited with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be critical as this vulnerability has a high impact to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of this component.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

What is a Memory Corruption Vulnerability?

The software writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Typically, this can result in corruption of data, a crash, or code execution. The software may modify an index or perform pointer arithmetic that references a memory location that is outside of the boundaries of the buffer. A subsequent write operation then produces undefined or unexpected results.

CVE-2026-76459 has been classified to as a Memory Corruption vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2026-76459

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Affected Versions

Cisco NX-OS Software: Cisco NX-OS System Software in ACI Mode: Cisco Unified Computing System (Managed):