An unauthenticated attacker sends an email to a Cisco Secure Email Gateway, and a path traversal in the malware-scanning path writes arbitrary files and executes commands as root. Scored 9.8, exploited, and there is a fix that needs no reboot.
1 article — 2026-10-15
IN CISA KEV — ADDED 2026-10-14
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CISA added this identifier to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2026-10-14, which means the agency has evidence of exploitation rather than a judgement that exploitation is possible. US federal agencies were required to remediate it by 2026-10-17.
An unauthenticated attacker sends an email to a Cisco Secure Email Gateway, and a path traversal in the malware-scanning path writes arbitrary files and executes commands as root. Scored 9.8, exploited, and there is a fix that needs no reboot.