{"id":"CVE-2026-17601","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-17601","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:24:35.733Z","title":"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…","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.","published":"2026-08-07T17:17:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-23T20:10:00.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"103e4ec9-0a87-450b-af77-479448ddef11","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":8.9,"severity":"HIGH","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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-862"],"affected":["sonatype/nexus repository manager"],"epss":{"score":0.00518,"percentile":0.43773,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.52%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://help.sonatype.com/en/sonatype-nexus-repository-3-95-0-release-notes.html","tags":["Release Notes"],"source":"103e4ec9-0a87-450b-af77-479448ddef11"},{"url":"https://support.sonatype.com/hc/en-us/articles/53889365883539/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"103e4ec9-0a87-450b-af77-479448ddef11"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-17601","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}