CVE-2026-76504

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score elevated to 9.8 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-09-30), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. A secondary CVSS source baseline 9.8 retained for reference (NVD's own analysis pending). Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Exploited in the wild

Also known asEUVD-2026-89950 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 39%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A vulnerability in the API session-based authentication management of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access an affected system with privileges of the admin user. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of URI encoding in an HTTP request, which allows the request to bypass an authentication rule that is intended to restrict access to a specific API endpoint. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to the API of the affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass authentication and gain access to the API as the admin user.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
99
EG Risk 99/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.
EPSS PROB
39%
EPSS %ILE
98th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
39% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-11). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Act at medium mission impactAttend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.

A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-sdwan-webauth-xr8beuuU · https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk · https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-implementation-guidance-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk · https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-76504

Published

September 30, 2026

Last Modified

October 3, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Nov 7, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Patch available. Sources: cisa.
CISA🔴 Active Exploitation

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2026-76504
Web page

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager API Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-sdwan-webauth-xr8beuuU

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-76504(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 13× in last 7d / 57× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

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  1. 2026-11-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
  2. 2026-11-12 14:23 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  3. 2026-11-12 14:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-11-11 16:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
  5. 2026-11-11 15:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  6. 2026-11-10 16:53 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  7. 2026-11-10 16:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  8. 2026-11-10 16:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
  9. 2026-11-09 18:08 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  10. 2026-11-09 18:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  11. 2026-11-08 19:23 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  12. 2026-11-08 19:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-11-08 16:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
  14. 2026-11-07 20:38 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  15. 2026-11-07 20:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  16. 2026-11-07 16:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
  17. 2026-11-06 21:53 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  18. 2026-11-06 21:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-11-06 16:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
  20. 2026-11-05 23:08 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  21. 2026-11-05 23:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-11-05 16:38 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
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  24. 2026-11-05 00:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  25. 2026-11-04 16:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
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  1. 2026-11-04 01:37 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  2. 2026-11-04 01:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-11-03 16:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
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  5. 2026-11-03 02:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  7. 2026-11-02 04:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  9. 2026-11-01 05:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-10-31 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
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  12. 2026-10-31 06:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-10-30 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
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  15. 2026-10-30 07:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  16. 2026-10-29 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
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  18. 2026-10-29 09:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-10-28 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
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  21. 2026-10-28 10:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-10-27 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
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  24. 2026-10-27 11:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  26. 2026-10-26 12:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  28. 2026-10-25 14:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  30. 2026-10-24 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 78th percentile
  31. 2026-10-24 15:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  33. 2026-10-23 16:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  36. 2026-10-22 17:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  39. 2026-10-21 19:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  42. 2026-10-20 20:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  45. 2026-10-19 21:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  48. 2026-10-18 22:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  52. 2026-10-18 00:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  55. 2026-10-17 01:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  58. 2026-10-16 02:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  61. 2026-10-15 03:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  64. 2026-10-14 05:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  67. 2026-10-13 06:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  70. 2026-10-12 07:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xqjc-v467-8fvf · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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Publicly available exploits

(1 reference)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 GitHub PoC). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • GitHub PoCShadowForge-Cyber/CVE-2026-76504-Proof-of-concept
    Published Sep 30, 2026

    EUVD-2026-89950 Improper Handling of URL Encoding (Hex Encoding) (CWE-177)

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2026-76504?
CVE-2026-76504 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 30, 2026. A vulnerability in the API session-based authentication management of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access an affected system with privileges of the admin user. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of URI encoding in an HTTP request,…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-76504 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-76504 was published on September 30, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 3, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-76504 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2026-76504 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 30, 2026, affecting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-76504?
CVE-2026-76504 has a CVSS base score of 9.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
Which products are affected by CVE-2026-76504?
CVE-2026-76504 affects Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager.
How do I remediate CVE-2026-76504?
A fix for CVE-2026-76504 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-76504 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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