CVE-2026-17601

HIGHNVD 7.27.2
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 7.2 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-07. NVD baseline CVSS 7.2; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2026-54514 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

7.2EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationNo release containing the referenced fix is confirmed: check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.5%CVSS: 7.2Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but no release containing it is confirmed — find the release that contains it; until it is applied, mitigate (WAF / firewall / segmentation).

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.

CVSS v3
7.2
EG Score
7.2HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
33
EG Risk 33/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity72% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.2 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.5% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule.
EPSS PROB
0.5%
EPSS %ILE
44th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (7.2): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.2 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.2 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.5% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-27). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says. In the directive's words, “Fix on system upgrade” means that, “unless conditions change”, the vulnerability “should be remediated the next time the vulnerable asset receives a scheduled major upgrade or rebuild”: its timelines are “dynamic as facts change”, and a KEV listing shortens them.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says. In the directive's words, “Fix on system upgrade” means that, “unless conditions change”, the vulnerability “should be remediated the next time the vulnerable asset receives a scheduled major upgrade or rebuild”: its timelines are “dynamic as facts change”, and a KEV listing shortens them.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

August 7, 2026

Last Modified

October 23, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Aug 7, 2026
Fix referenced — no release confirmed yet.
Web page

Sonatype Nexus Repository 3.95.0 Release Notes

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

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-17601(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 49× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 244 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 144 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-01 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
  2. 2026-10-31 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
  3. 2026-10-30 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
  4. 2026-10-29 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 43rd percentile
  5. 2026-10-28 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 43rd percentile
  6. 2026-10-27 20:53 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-27 20:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  8. 2026-10-27 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 43rd percentile
  9. 2026-10-26 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 43rd percentile
  10. 2026-10-25 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 43rd percentile
  11. 2026-10-25 14:46 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-24 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 20th percentile
  13. 2026-10-23 20:28 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-23 20:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  15. 2026-10-23 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 20th percentile
  16. 2026-10-22 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 20th percentile
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  20. 2026-10-18 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
  21. 2026-10-18 03:59 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-17 17:55 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-17 17:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  24. 2026-10-17 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
  25. 2026-10-16 16:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-15 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
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  5. 2026-10-12 16:28 UTCEG score recompute
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  9. 2026-10-11 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
  10. 2026-10-10 19:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
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  13. 2026-10-07 23:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
  14. 2026-10-06 23:17 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-06 23:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  16. 2026-10-06 15:17 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
  17. 2026-10-05 18:33 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-05 18:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  19. 2026-10-05 17:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
  20. 2026-10-04 23:21 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
  21. 2026-10-04 23:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  22. 2026-10-04 05:44 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-04 05:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  24. 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
  25. 2026-10-03 01:00 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-10-03 01:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  27. 2026-10-02 09:33 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-10-02 09:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  29. 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
  30. 2026-10-01 10:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  31. 2026-09-30 22:55 UTCEG score recompute
  32. 2026-09-30 22:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  33. 2026-09-30 15:02 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
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  36. 2026-09-29 05:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  37. 2026-09-28 13:51 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
  38. 2026-09-28 04:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  39. 2026-09-27 17:10 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-09-27 17:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  41. 2026-09-27 13:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
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  43. 2026-09-25 04:16 UTCEG score recompute
  44. 2026-09-25 04:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
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  46. 2026-09-24 04:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.2
  47. 2026-09-23 16:00 UTCEG score recompute▼ 1.70
  48. 2026-09-23 16:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH
  49. 2026-09-23 15:59 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 7.2
  50. 2026-09-23 13:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH
  51. 2026-09-23 00:31 UTCEG score recompute
  52. 2026-09-23 00:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH
  53. 2026-09-22 12:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH
  54. 2026-09-22 00:44 UTCEG score recompute
  55. 2026-09-22 00:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH
  56. 2026-09-21 12:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH
  57. 2026-09-20 20:33 UTCEG score recompute
  58. 2026-09-20 20:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH
  59. 2026-09-20 03:04 UTCEG score recompute
  60. 2026-09-20 03:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH
  61. 2026-09-19 14:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH
  62. 2026-09-19 02:52 UTCEG score recompute
  63. 2026-09-19 02:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH
  64. 2026-09-18 19:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 16th percentile
  65. 2026-09-18 14:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH
  66. 2026-09-18 02:54 UTCEG score recompute
  67. 2026-09-18 02:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH
  68. 2026-09-17 15:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH
  69. 2026-09-17 00:53 UTCEG score recompute
  70. 2026-09-17 00:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH
  71. 2026-09-16 14:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 16th percentile
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  73. 2026-09-16 03:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH
  74. 2026-09-15 16:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fpjc-8wg6-ph5j · GitHub severity HIGH
  75. 2026-09-15 03:50 UTCEG score recompute

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-17601?
CVE-2026-17601 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 7, 2026. 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.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-17601 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-17601 was published on August 7, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 23, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-17601 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-17601 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (44th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-17601?
CVE-2026-17601 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.2 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-17601?
A fix for CVE-2026-17601 is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but EchelonGraph has no release containing it on record. Check that reference and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains the fix and update to it; until then, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-17601 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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