Cisco warns customers of actively exploited zero-day in email gateways

Cisco disclosed a critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-76461) in its Secure Email Gateway software that is actively being exploited, allowing remote attackers to execute commands with root privileges. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency quickly added this vulnerability to its known exploited vulnerabilities catalog, urging immediate patches and threat hunting.

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