{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-76462 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2026-76462 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2026-76462 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Secure Client, published on 21 Oct 2026."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-76462 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-76462 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Secure Client, published on 21 Oct 2026. \nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-76462 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Cisco Secure Client. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-76462/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-76462/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-76462","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-76462/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-76462","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-5f4j-pf3p-wcgw"],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":"cisco","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-20","name":"Improper Input Validation"}],"description":"A vulnerability in the interprocess communication (IPC) channel of the Secure Firewall Posture module in Cisco Secure Client could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges on an affected device.\r\n\r\nThis vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a series of crafted IPC messages to a local socket. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to perform limited file write operations on the filesystem with SYSTEM or root privileges.\r\nAlthough this vulnerability affects the Secure Firewall Posture module in Cisco Secure Client on Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems, this vulnerability could be used to obtain full root privileges on macOS and Linux. For that reason Cisco has assigned this security advisory a Security Impact Rating (SIR) of High rather than Medium as the score indicates.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Cisco Secure Client Privilege Escalation Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2026-76462","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":null,"year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Cisco Meraki Security Hardening Release: October 2026 - Improper Access Control Vulnerabilities","id":"CVE-2026-76463"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Cisco Secure Email Gateway SQL Injection","id":"CVE-2026-76461"},"products":["Cisco Secure Client"],"published":"2026-10-21","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-22","vendors":["Cisco"]},"summary":null,"url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-76462/"}