Cisco Emergency Responder improper check or handling of exceptional conditions

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Emergency Responder, Prime Collaboration Deployment, Unified Communications Manager, Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service, Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition and Unity Connection. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in improper check or handling of exceptional conditions. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-76481. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Emergency Responder, Prime Collaboration Deployment, Unified Communications Manager, Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service, Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition and Unity Connection. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper check or handling of exceptional conditions vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-703. The product does not properly anticipate or handle exceptional conditions that rarely occur during normal operation of the product. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

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-2026-76481 are related to issues concerning improper handling of exceptional conditions that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-703.

The advisory is shared at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-76481 since 08/19/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/21/2026).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.3

VulDB Base Score: 7.5
VulDB Temp Score: 7.2
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CNA Base Score: 7.5
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Improper check or handling of exceptional conditions
CWE: CWE-703
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

08/19/2026 CVE reserved
10/21/2026 +63 days Advisory disclosed
10/21/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
10/21/2026 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: sec.cloudapps.cisco.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2026-76481 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-76481
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-424905

Entryinfo

Created: 10/21/2026 19:03
Changes: 10/21/2026 19:03 (63)
Complete: 🔍
Cache ID: 216::103

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