{"id":"CVE-2026-68573","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-68573","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:14:39.800Z","title":"Improper Authentication vulnerability in Apache Kylin.","description":"Improper Authentication vulnerability in Apache Kylin. Unauthenticated user may access to system cleanup actions. Impact most to the kylin services that are directly exposed to public network, which is not common. In-house kylin deployments are mostly not impacted. \n\n\n\nThis issue affects Apache Kylin: from 4 through 5.0.4.\n\n\n\nUsers are recommended to upgrade to version 5.0.5, which fixes the issue.","published":"2026-10-16T20:17:24.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-20T18:17:22.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"security@apache.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-287"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00496,"percentile":0.42355,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-10-17","score":0.00247,"percentile":0.14866}]},"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 (0.50%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"scored","label":"Newly scored","at":"2026-10-20T19:15:07.000Z","detail":{"from":null,"score":"9.8","severity":"CRITICAL","fromSeverity":null},"summary":"Now scored CVSS 9.8 CRITICAL."},{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-16T20:17:24.000Z","detail":{"score":null,"severity":null,"publishedAt":"2026-10-16T20:17:24.233Z"},"summary":"New CVE, critical severity (CVSS 9.8)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4n3qt477rtvwnko2olb3hjwjll1yry8j","source":"security@apache.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/16/7","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-68573","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."}