CVE-2026-17601

high

Description

A user holding a permission to update privilege definitions could modify a wildcard privilege already assigned to their own role to grant broader permissions than they were authorized to hold, including full administrative access, without any additional authorization check or role reassignment.

References

https://support.sonatype.com/hc/en-us/articles/53889365883539/

https://help.sonatype.com/en/sonatype-nexus-repository-3-95-0-release-notes.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-07

Updated: 2026-08-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 8.9

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:L

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00215