CVE-2026-76462 (GCVE-0-2026-76462)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-21 16:14 – Updated: 2026-10-21 17:19
VLAI
Title
Cisco Secure Client Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Summary
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. This 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. Although 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.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-10-21 16:41 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
Assigner
cisco CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 66/100 over 442 records in the last 180 days details
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Cisco Cisco Secure Client Affected: 4.9.00086
Affected: 4.9.01095
Affected: 4.9.02028
Affected: 4.9.03047
Affected: 4.9.03049
Affected: 4.9.04043
Affected: 4.9.04053
Affected: 4.9.05042
Affected: 4.9.06037
Affected: 4.10.00093
Affected: 4.10.01075
Affected: 4.10.02086
Affected: 4.10.03104
Affected: 4.10.04065
Affected: 4.10.04071
Affected: 4.10.05085
Affected: 4.10.05095
Affected: 5.0.00238
Affected: 4.10.05111
Affected: 5.0.00529
Affected: 5.0.00556
Affected: 4.10.06079
Affected: 5.0.01242
Affected: 4.10.06090
Affected: 5.0.02075
Affected: 4.10.07061
Affected: 5.0.03072
Affected: 4.10.07062
Affected: 5.0.03076
Affected: 5.0.04032
Affected: 4.10.07073
Affected: 5.0.05040
Affected: 5.1.0.136
Affected: 5.1.1.42
Affected: 4.10.08025
Affected: 5.1.2.42
Affected: 4.10.08029
Affected: 5.1.3.62
Affected: 5.1.4.74
Affected: 5.1.5.65
Affected: 5.1.6.103
Affected: 5.1.7.80
Affected: 5.1.8.105
Affected: 5.1.8.122
Affected: 5.1.9.113
Affected: 5.1.10.233
Affected: 5.1.11.388
Affected: 5.1.12.146
Affected: 5.1.13.117
Affected: 5.1.13.177
Affected: 5.1.14.145
Affected: 5.1.15.287
Affected: 5.1.16.194
Affected: 5.1.17.3382
Affected: 5.1.17.3394
Affected: 5.1.18.314
Affected: 5.1.19.1862
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