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.

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Attack Requirements Present

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact High

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact High

Vulnerable System Availability Impact High

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact High

Subsequent System Integrity Impact High

Subsequent System Availability Impact Low

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

No EPSS score available.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
Sonatype Nexus Repository 3 unaffected
Version Status Constraints
3.19.0 affected < 3.95.0

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Advisories

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Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References
Link Providers
https://help.sonatype.com/en/sonatype-nexus-repository-3-95-0-release-notes.html cve-icon
https://support.sonatype.com/hc/en-us/articles/53889365883539/ cve-icon
History

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

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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.
Title Nexus Repository 3 - Wildcard Privilege Update Self-Escalation to Administrator
First Time appeared Sonatype
Sonatype nexus Repository Manager
Weaknesses CWE-862
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Vendors & Products Sonatype
Sonatype nexus Repository Manager
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'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'}

Projects

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Sonatype

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-07T18:05:28.600Z

Reserved: 2026-07-27T16:30:47.620Z

Link: CVE-2026-17601

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-07T18:04:26.310Z

cve-icon NVD

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-07T17:45:03Z

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