CVE-2026-56162

CRITICALPre-NVD 10.010.0
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 10.0 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-08-07. The CNA's CVSS baseline 10.0; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: the CNA's CVSS, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory
Trending — 4 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2026-54323 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

10.0EG
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 at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.9%CVSS: 10.0Exploit: 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).

Improper authentication in Azure SQL Database allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

CVSS v3
10.0
EG Score
10.0CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
60
EG Risk 60/100

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)
Severity100% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 10.0 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.9% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
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 none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (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 at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.9%
EPSS %ILE
59th
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 (10.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 10.0 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
10.0 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.9% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). 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: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days 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.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 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 at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (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)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days 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.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (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 6, 2026

Last Modified

October 30, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Oct 30, 2026
Fix referenced — no release confirmed yet. Sources: microsoft.
Microsoft

Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-56162

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-56162(2)

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 29× in last 7d / 116× 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 785 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 685 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 11:58 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-02 11:58 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-02 11:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  4. 2026-11-01 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  5. 2026-11-01 13:48 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-11-01 13:48 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-11-01 13:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  8. 2026-10-31 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  9. 2026-10-31 15:39 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-31 15:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  11. 2026-10-30 17:31 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-30 17:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  13. 2026-10-30 16:41 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-30 16:41 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-30 16:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  16. 2026-10-30 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  17. 2026-10-29 18:32 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-29 18:32 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-29 18:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  20. 2026-10-29 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  21. 2026-10-28 20:24 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-28 20:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  23. 2026-10-28 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  24. 2026-10-28 10:01 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-28 10:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  1. 2026-10-27 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  2. 2026-10-27 10:57 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-27 10:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  4. 2026-10-26 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  5. 2026-10-26 12:49 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-26 12:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  7. 2026-10-25 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  8. 2026-10-25 14:36 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-25 14:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  10. 2026-10-25 14:18 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-24 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  12. 2026-10-24 16:27 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-24 16:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  14. 2026-10-23 21:26 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-23 21:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  16. 2026-10-23 17:25 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-23 17:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  18. 2026-10-23 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  19. 2026-10-22 19:16 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-22 19:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  21. 2026-10-22 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  22. 2026-10-21 21:02 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-21 21:02 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-21 21:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  25. 2026-10-21 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  26. 2026-10-21 03:50 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-10-21 03:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  28. 2026-10-20 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  29. 2026-10-20 05:36 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-10-20 05:36 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-10-20 05:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  32. 2026-10-19 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  33. 2026-10-19 07:14 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-10-19 07:14 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-10-19 07:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  36. 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  37. 2026-10-18 08:59 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-10-18 08:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  39. 2026-10-18 03:29 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-10-17 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  41. 2026-10-17 10:49 UTCEG score recompute
  42. 2026-10-17 10:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  43. 2026-10-16 16:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  44. 2026-10-16 12:23 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-10-16 12:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  46. 2026-10-15 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  47. 2026-10-15 14:06 UTCEG score recompute
  48. 2026-10-15 14:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  49. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  50. 2026-10-14 08:52 UTCEG score recompute
  51. 2026-10-14 08:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  52. 2026-10-13 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  53. 2026-10-13 04:59 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-10-13 04:59 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-10-13 04:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  56. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  57. 2026-10-12 15:55 UTCEG score recompute
  58. 2026-10-12 06:50 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-10-12 06:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  60. 2026-10-11 19:38 UTCEG score recompute
  61. 2026-10-11 16:53 UTCEG score recompute
  62. 2026-10-11 14:16 UTCEG score recompute
  63. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  64. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  65. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  66. 2026-10-08 19:13 UTCEG score recompute
  67. 2026-10-08 19:13 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-10-08 19:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  69. 2026-10-08 17:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  70. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  71. 2026-10-07 03:53 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-10-07 03:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  73. 2026-10-06 23:21 UTCEG score recompute
  74. 2026-10-06 23:21 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-10-06 23:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6gmq-p797-9x4m · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-56162?
CVE-2026-56162 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 6, 2026. Improper authentication in Azure SQL Database allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
When was CVE-2026-56162 made public?
CVE-2026-56162 was made public on August 6, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Microsoft Corporation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on August 6, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 30, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-56162 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-56162 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (59th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-56162?
CVE-2026-56162 has a CVSS base score of 10.0 (the CNA's own assessment, by microsoft; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-56162?
A fix for CVE-2026-56162 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-2026-56162 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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