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Cisco's email gateway is under attack, and CISA added seven more flaws

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Cisco's email gateway is under attack, and CISA added seven more flaws

Cisco has warned that CVE-2026-76461, affecting AsyncOS for Cisco Secure Email Gateway, is being exploited in the wild. An unauthenticated attacker can execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with root privileges. No credentials, full control of the box.

Key Takeaways

  • CVE-2026-76461 in AsyncOS for Cisco Secure Email Gateway is being exploited in the wild and allows unauthenticated command execution as root.
  • CISA added seven flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog covering SonicWall, Artifactory, Switchvox, Starlette, Kestra and LiteLLM.
  • Federal agencies had until 16 September to remediate the Starlette issue, with reverse shells and crypto miners already observed.

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