CVE-2026-55556

HIGHPre-NVD 8.28.2
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

This high-severity CVE scores 8.2 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.9% (58th 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
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekElevated

Also known asEUVD-2026-83184 (ENISA EUVD)Source: ENISA EUVD

8.2EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.9%CVSS: 8.2Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Rsyslog is a rocket-fast system for log processing. From 8.2110.0 until 8.2604.0, the optional imhttp module's parse_auth_header function in contrib/imhttp/imhttp.c allocates a zero-byte heap buffer with calloc(0, len) when an HTTP Basic Authorization value exceeds its fixed work buffer, then passes that pointer to apr_base64_decode. An unauthenticated remote attacker can send an oversized encoded credential to an imhttp endpoint configured for Basic Authentication, causing decoded data to overwrite adjacent heap memory before credential validation. Deployments that do not install, load, and use imhttp with Basic Authentication are not affected. The demonstrated impact is a process crash that interrupts log collection, and code execution has not been demonstrated. This issue is fixed in version 8.2604.0.

CVSS v3
8.2
EG Score
8.2HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
68
EG Risk 68/100

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)
Severity82% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.2 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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 at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.9%
EPSS %ILE
58th
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 (8.2): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 8.2 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
8.2 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
0.9% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-29). 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; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days 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; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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; 60 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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 18, 2026

Last Modified

September 24, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Sep 18, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github_release, github, github_pr, github_commit.
GitHub release Patch Available

rsyslog 8.2604.0

Patch available: rsyslog/rsyslog v8.2604.0

https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/releases/tag/v8.2604.0
GitHub commit Patch Available

commit acde2ba25ea3 (rsyslog/rsyslog)

Patch available: rsyslog/rsyslog v8.2604.0 (contains commit acde2ba25ea3)

https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commit/acde2ba25ea33816694b787859f4a727a247b6d6
GitHub pull request Patch Available

imhttp: add route-scoped API key authentication

Patch available: rsyslog/rsyslog v8.2604.0 (PR #6722 merged 2026-04-17)

https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/6722
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

Heap buffer overflow in imhttp plugin Basic Authentication handling / rsyslog · Advisory · rsyslog/rsyslog · GitHub

https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/security/advisories/GHSA-947w-69ph-mc2r

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-55556(1)

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

Affected Packages

(3 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
rsyslog8.2302.0-1 ... 8.2608.0-4 (55 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
rsyslog8.2504.0-1 ... 8.2608.0-4 (29 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
rsyslog8.2504.0-1 ... 8.2602.0-1 (15 versions)
  • every version up to 8.2604.0-1: fixed in 8.2604.0-1
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Weakness Classification(1)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 67× 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 102 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 2 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 0.9% · 58th percentile
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  4. 2026-10-29 22:57 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-29 22:57 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-29 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
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  14. 2026-10-23 13:08 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-23 13:08 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-22 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 57th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 57th percentile
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  5. 2026-10-12 02:42 UTCVendor advisory
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  8. 2026-10-11 14:45 UTCVendor advisory
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  10. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 57th percentile
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  12. 2026-10-11 02:47 UTCVendor advisory
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  14. 2026-10-10 12:56 UTCVendor advisory
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  18. 2026-10-09 13:01 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-08 23:59 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-08 23:59 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-08 17:12 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 56th percentile
  22. 2026-10-08 12:02 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-08 12:02 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 56th percentile
  25. 2026-10-07 23:46 UTCVendor advisory
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  27. 2026-10-06 23:51 UTCEG score recompute
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  29. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 56th percentile
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  45. 2026-10-02 17:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 56th percentile
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  53. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 56th percentile
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-55556?
CVE-2026-55556 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 18, 2026. Rsyslog is a rocket-fast system for log processing. From 8.2110.0 until 8.2604.0, the optional imhttp module's parse_auth_header function in contrib/imhttp/imhttp.c allocates a zero-byte heap buffer with calloc(0, len) when an HTTP Basic Authorization value exceeds its fixed work buffer, then…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-55556 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-55556 was published on September 18, 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-2026-55556 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-55556 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (58th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-55556?
CVE-2026-55556 has a CVSS base score of 8.2 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-55556?
A fix for CVE-2026-55556 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-55556 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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