Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-76732 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-76732 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-76732?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 6.4, published 29 September 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- HPE Networking Instant ON.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-76732?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-76732 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-76732?
- Check whether you run Hpe Networking Instant On. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in a daemon component of HPE Networking Instant ON, allowing an authenticated local attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges when certain preconditions outside the attacker's control are met. The attack vector is local only; no network exploitation is possible. Mitigation through patching is available from HPE.
Affected products
- HPE Networking Instant ON
Timeline
- 2026-09-29: disclosed