Attackers Exploit Second Cisco Firewall VPN Zero-Day Since August

SecurityWeek - Oct 29, 2026

Cisco on Wednesday released fixes for an exploited vulnerability affecting its Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) software. Tracked as CVE-2026-76418 and assigned a CVSS score of 8.6, the bug resides in the Remote Access SSL VPN service. Attackers can exploit it remotely, without authenticating, to force the device […] The post Attackers Exploit Second Cisco Firewall VPN Zero-Day Since August appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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