Cisco Secure Email Gateway Flaw Exploited in the Wild, Enables Root Command Execution

Cisco Secure Email Gateway Flaw Exploited in the Wild, Enables Root Command Execution

The Hacker News · Sep 15, 2026

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Cisco Secure Email Gateway Flaw Exploited in the Wild, Enables Root Command Execution
Security September 15, 2026

Cisco has warned that a new critical vulnerability impacting AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email Gateway has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-76461, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. It has been described as a case of insufficient validation in the email parsing logic that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker

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