Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server Expressway permission assignment

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as very critical has been found in Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server Expressway. Impacted is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to permission assignment. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-76495. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server Expressway and classified as very critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission assignment vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-732. The product specifies permissions for a security-critical resource in a way that allows that resource to be read or modified by unintended actors. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Expressway Series software engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities.   The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-76495 are related to issues concerning incorrect permission assignments that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Variant CWE-732.

The advisory is shared at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-76495 since 08/19/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary 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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Type

• Unified Communication Software

Vendor

• Cisco

Name

• TelePresence Video Communication Server Expressway

Version

• X8.1
• X8.1.1
• X8.1.2
• X8.2
• X8.2.1
• X8.2.2
• X8.5
• X8.5.1
• X8.5.2
• X8.5.3
• X8.6
• X8.6.1
• X8.7
• X8.7.1
• X8.7.2
• X8.7.3
• X8.8
• X8.8.1
• X8.8.2
• X8.8.3
• X8.9
• X8.9.1
• X8.9.2
• X8.10.0
• X8.10.1
• X8.10.2
• X8.10.3
• X8.10.4
• X8.11.0
• X8.11.1
• X8.11.2
• X8.11.3
• X8.11.4
• X12.5.0
• X12.5.1
• X12.5.2
• X12.5.3
• X12.5.4
• X12.5.5
• X12.5.6
• X12.5.7
• X12.5.8
• X12.5.9
• X12.6.0
• X12.6.1
• X12.6.2
• X12.6.3
• X12.6.4
• X12.7.0
• X12.7.1
• X14.0.0
• X14.0.1
• X14.0.2
• X14.0.3
• X14.0.4
• X14.0.5
• X14.0.6
• X14.0.7
• X14.0.8
• X14.0.9
• X14.0.10
• X14.0.11
• X14.2.0
• X14.2.1
• X14.2.2
• X14.2.5
• X14.2.6
• X14.2.7
• X14.3.0
• X14.3.1
• X14.3.2
• X14.3.3
• X14.3.4
• X14.3.5
• X14.3.6
• X14.3.7
• X15.0.0
• X15.0.1
• X15.0.2
• X15.0.3
• X15.2.0
• X15.2.1
• X15.2.2
• X15.2.3
• X15.2.4
• X15.2.4.
• X15.3.0
• X15.3.1
• X15.3.2
• X15.4.0
• X15.5.0
• X15.5.1
• X15.5.2
• X15.5.3

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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