CVE-2026-53534

HIGHPre-NVD 7.57.5
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.4% (38th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from a secondary CVSS source
Sources: EPSS, a secondary CVSS source

Also known asEUVD-2026-82565 (ENISA EUVD)Source: ENISA EUVD

7.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.4%CVSS: 7.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

JabRef is a desktop application for managing BibTeX and BibLaTeX libraries. Prior to 6.0-alpha.6, when jabsrv or JabRef's built-in HTTP server is enabled, the GET /better-bibtex/cayw endpoint accepts an external command query parameter and CAYWQueryParams.getCommand() passes it through CAYWResource.getCitation() into PushToSublimeText.getCommandLine(). On Unix-like systems, PushToSublimeText combines this untrusted cite-command prefix and citation keys into a string executed through sh -c by ProcessBuilder without shell escaping. A client that can cause a localhost request with application=sublime can inject shell metacharacters and execute operating-system commands as the JabRef user when a valid Sublime Text command path is configured and the victim completes the CAYW selection dialog. The built-in server is disabled by default, so exploitation requires the victim to enable it or run jabsrv. This issue is fixed in version 6.0-alpha.6.

CVSS v3
7.5
EG Score
7.5HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
34
EG Risk 34/100

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)
Severity75% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.4% × 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 available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.4%
EPSS %ILE
38th
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 (7.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.5 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.a secondary CVSS source · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
0.4% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-31). 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.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 available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

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.

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

September 17, 2026

Last Modified

September 24, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Sep 17, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github_pr, github_commit, github_release, github.
GitHub release Patch Available

v6.0-alpha.6

Patch available: JabRef/jabref v6.0-alpha.6 (pre-release)

https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/releases/tag/v6.0-alpha.6
GitHub commit

commit b8663fe58e6c (JabRef/jabref)

Fix landed in JabRef/jabref commit b8663fe58e6c — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/commit/b8663fe58e6c87c3927cdb4eeb1f6934d7c3f1d2
GitHub pull request

Improve security and prevent shell injection for push2applications

Fix merged in JabRef/jabref PR #15628 on 2026-05-03 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/pull/15628
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

[SECURITY] jabref_002 Vulnerability Report · Advisory · JabRef/jabref · GitHub

https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/security/advisories/GHSA-m42c-cw93-p629

Weakness Classification(1)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 47× 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.

  1. 2026-11-01 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 38th percentile
  2. 2026-10-31 23:25 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-31 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 38th percentile
  4. 2026-10-30 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 38th percentile
  5. 2026-10-29 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 38th percentile
  6. 2026-10-28 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 38th percentile
  7. 2026-10-27 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 38th percentile
  8. 2026-10-26 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 38th percentile
  9. 2026-10-25 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 38th percentile
  10. 2026-10-25 14:20 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-24 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 37th percentile
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  13. 2026-10-23 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 37th percentile
  14. 2026-10-22 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 37th percentile
  15. 2026-10-21 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 37th percentile
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  17. 2026-10-19 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 37th percentile
  18. 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 37th percentile
  19. 2026-10-18 03:31 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-17 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 37th percentile
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  22. 2026-10-16 16:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 37th percentile
  23. 2026-10-15 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 37th percentile
  24. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 37th percentile
  25. 2026-10-13 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 37th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
  2. 2026-10-12 15:57 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-11 19:40 UTCEG score recompute
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  6. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
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  8. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
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  10. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
  11. 2026-10-08 17:34 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-08 17:12 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
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  14. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
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  16. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
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  18. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
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  20. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
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  22. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
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  24. 2026-10-02 17:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
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  26. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
  27. 2026-09-30 18:57 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
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  30. 2026-09-29 15:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
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  33. 2026-09-28 13:51 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
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  44. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
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  48. 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 28th percentile
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  51. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 28th percentile
  52. 2026-09-17 22:24 UTCEG score recompute
  53. 2026-09-17 21:50 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 7.5 HIGH
  54. 2026-09-17 21:49 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-53534?
CVE-2026-53534 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 17, 2026. JabRef is a desktop application for managing BibTeX and BibLaTeX libraries. Prior to 6.0-alpha.6, when jabsrv or JabRef's built-in HTTP server is enabled, the GET /better-bibtex/cayw endpoint accepts an external command query parameter and CAYWQueryParams.getCommand() passes it through…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-53534 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-53534 was published on September 17, 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 September 24, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-53534 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-53534 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (38th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-53534?
CVE-2026-53534 has a CVSS base score of 7.5 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-53534?
A fix for CVE-2026-53534 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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