SB2026102852 - Remote denial of service in Cisco ASA and FTD
Published: October 28, 2026
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-76418) Exploited
CWE-ID: CWE-690 - Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference
CVSSv4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a logic error when secondary authentication is configured on a tunnel group. A remote attacker can send specially crafted request when connecting to the SSL remote access VPN and perform a denial of service attack.
Note, the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.