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-2026-76473 are related to issues concerning improper control of a resource through its lifetime that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Class CWE-74.
 

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Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:30:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Thu, 22 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0000

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Description 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-2026-76473 are related to issues concerning improper control of a resource through its lifetime that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Class CWE-74.  
Title Cisco Unified Communications Products Hardening Release: October 2026 - Improper control of a resource through its lifetime.
Weaknesses CWE-74
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-22T13:37:54.761Z

Reserved: 2026-08-19T12:02:03.638Z

Link: CVE-2026-76473

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-10-22T13:36:26.189Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-10-21T17:19:06.973

Modified: 2026-10-22T14:17:45.913

Link: CVE-2026-76473

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No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-10-22T10:41:25Z

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