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Cisco Patches Actively Exploited ASA and FTD VPN Flaw That Can Crash Firewalls

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Published by the source: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:14:46 +0530

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Cisco has released patches to address a high-severity security flaw in Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-76418, is rated 8.6 on the CVSS scoring system. Successful exploitation could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the

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