Cisco has released a critical security hardening update for its Secure Email Gateway and Secure Email and Web Manager to address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities, including at least one SQL injection flaw that is known to be actively exploited. The vulnerabilities are grouped by Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) classes and assigned CVE identifiers CVE-2026-20353, CVE-2026-76440, CVE-2026-76441, CVE-2026-76442, and CVE-2026-76443. Cisco has released software updates to address these issues, and there are no available workarounds.
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities were found during internal testing. One of them is known to be actively exploited. For more information, see Cisco Secure Email Gateway SQL Injection Vulnerability . To assist customers in patching and streamline the disclosure process, Cisco has grouped these issues by their underlying vulnerability class — Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) — and assigned a single Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures identifier (CVE ID) to each CWE grouping. Cisco has released software updates that address these vulnerabilities. There are no workarounds that address these vulnerabilities. This advisory is available at the following link: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-esa-dfCrfXkm <br/>Security Impact Rating: Critical <br/>CVE: CVE-2026-20353,CVE-2026-76440,CVE-2026-76441,CVE-2026-76442,CVE-2026-76443