CVE-2026-86242

HIGHPre-NVD 8.18.1
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 8.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-09-06. A secondary CVSS source baseline 8.1; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 3 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2026-72104 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

8.1EG
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: 3.6%CVSS: 8.1Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

Upgrade Bifrost HTTP transport to 2.0.0 or later (from the CVE record's solution, JFrog) — apply it.

Bifrost HTTP transport before 2.0.0 accepts an enabled custom plugin whose path is an HTTP URL through unauthenticated POST /api/plugins when management authentication is disabled (the default, governance.auth_config.is_enabled=false). The shared-object loader treats an http-prefixed path as a download URL, writes the body to a temporary .so, and passes it to Go's plugin.Open. After a successful open, optional Init runs immediately with the supplied config as the Bifrost process user. On documented dynamically linked builds (DYNAMIC=1 / no static-link flags), which the vendor requires for custom Go plugins, plugin.Open is expected to succeed and this is unauthenticated remote code execution. On the published statically linked Docker image, plugin.Open fails with Dynamic loading not supported, so that build class is only server-side request forgery. Attack complexity is High because the attacker cannot force RCE on the default static image and a loadable plugin must match the host Go version, OS, architecture, and linkage. The 1.6.x HTTP transport line through 1.6.11 does not contain the fix.

CVSS v3
8.1
EG Score
8.1HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
38
EG Risk 38/100

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)
Severity81% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.1 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation3.6% × 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: Upgrade Bifrost HTTP transport to 2.0.0 or later (from the CVE record's solution, JFrog). Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
3.6%
EPSS %ILE
89th
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 (8.1): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 8.1 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
8.1 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
3.6% 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.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).

Upgrade Bifrost HTTP transport to 2.0.0 or later (from the CVE record's solution, JFrog). 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 6, 2026

Last Modified

September 9, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Sep 6, 2026
Fix named in the CVE record's solution (JFrog). Sources: github_pr, github_commit.
Web page

GitHub - maximhq/bifrost: Fastest enterprise AI gateway (50x faster than LiteLLM) with adaptive load balancer, cluster mode, guardrails, 1000+ models support & <100 µs overhead at 5k RPS. · GitHub

https://github.com/maximhq/bifrost
GitHub commit

commit e0057ff355f8 (maximhq/bifrost)

Fix landed in maximhq/bifrost commit e0057ff355f8 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/maximhq/bifrost/commit/e0057ff355f831c251eabe9d0e44f3a3748532c6
GitHub pull request

path normalization auth bypass

Fix merged in maximhq/bifrost PR #5763 on 2026-08-03 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/maximhq/bifrost/pull/5763

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-86242(1)

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

Weakness Classification(3)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 57× 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 165 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 65 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-31 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.6% · 89th percentile
  2. 2026-10-30 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.6% · 89th percentile
  3. 2026-10-29 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.6% · 89th percentile
  4. 2026-10-28 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.6% · 89th percentile
  5. 2026-10-27 19:56 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-27 19:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  7. 2026-10-27 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.6% · 89th percentile
  8. 2026-10-26 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.6% · 89th percentile
  9. 2026-10-25 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.6% · 89th percentile
  10. 2026-10-25 13:55 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-24 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.6% · 89th percentile
  12. 2026-10-23 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.6% · 89th percentile
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  15. 2026-10-20 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.6% · 89th percentile
  16. 2026-10-20 07:29 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-20 07:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  18. 2026-10-19 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.6% · 89th percentile
  19. 2026-10-18 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.6% · 89th percentile
  20. 2026-10-18 03:05 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.6% · 89th percentile
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  25. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.6% · 89th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-13 05:20 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-13 05:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  3. 2026-10-12 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.6% · 89th percentile
  4. 2026-10-12 14:51 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-11 19:17 UTCEG score recompute
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  8. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.6% · 89th percentile
  9. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.6% · 89th percentile
  10. 2026-10-10 10:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  11. 2026-10-09 22:53 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-09 22:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  13. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.6% · 89th percentile
  14. 2026-10-09 00:59 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-09 00:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  16. 2026-10-08 17:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.6% · 89th percentile
  17. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.6% · 89th percentile
  18. 2026-10-07 22:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  19. 2026-10-07 01:02 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-07 01:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  21. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.6% · 89th percentile
  22. 2026-10-06 13:19 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-06 13:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  24. 2026-10-06 01:39 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-06 01:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  26. 2026-10-05 17:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.1% · 63rd percentile
  27. 2026-10-05 13:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  28. 2026-10-05 02:18 UTCEG score recompute
  29. 2026-10-05 02:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  30. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.1% · 63rd percentile
  31. 2026-10-04 14:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  32. 2026-10-04 02:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  33. 2026-10-03 14:54 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-10-03 14:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
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  36. 2026-10-03 03:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  37. 2026-10-02 17:57 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.1% · 63rd percentile
  38. 2026-10-02 15:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  39. 2026-10-02 03:37 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-10-02 03:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  41. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.1% · 63rd percentile
  42. 2026-10-01 14:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  43. 2026-10-01 03:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  44. 2026-09-30 15:21 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-09-30 15:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  46. 2026-09-30 15:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.1% · 63rd percentile
  47. 2026-09-30 02:35 UTCEG score recompute
  48. 2026-09-30 02:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  49. 2026-09-29 13:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  50. 2026-09-29 01:37 UTCEG score recompute
  51. 2026-09-29 01:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  52. 2026-09-28 13:57 UTCEG score recompute
  53. 2026-09-28 13:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  54. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.1% · 63rd percentile
  55. 2026-09-28 02:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  56. 2026-09-27 14:38 UTCEG score recompute
  57. 2026-09-27 14:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  58. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.1% · 63rd percentile
  59. 2026-09-27 02:58 UTCEG score recompute
  60. 2026-09-27 02:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  61. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.1% · 63rd percentile
  62. 2026-09-26 15:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  63. 2026-09-26 01:41 UTCEG score recompute
  64. 2026-09-26 01:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  65. 2026-09-25 07:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  66. 2026-09-24 19:32 UTCEG score recompute
  67. 2026-09-24 19:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  68. 2026-09-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.1% · 63rd percentile
  69. 2026-09-24 07:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  70. 2026-09-23 20:12 UTCEG score recompute
  71. 2026-09-23 20:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  72. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  73. 2026-09-23 08:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  74. 2026-09-22 20:53 UTCEG score recompute
  75. 2026-09-22 20:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1

Public detection templates

(1 reference)

A public Nuclei detection template is referenced for this CVE. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code.

  • Nucleihttp/cves/2026/CVE-2026-86242.yaml
    Published Oct 5, 2026

    Bifrost < 1.6.3 - Unauthenticated Remote Plugin URL Fetch

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-86242?
CVE-2026-86242 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 6, 2026. Bifrost HTTP transport before 2.0.0 accepts an enabled custom plugin whose path is an HTTP URL through unauthenticated POST /api/plugins when management authentication is disabled (the default, governance.auth_config.is_enabled=false). The shared-object loader treats an http-prefixed path as a…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-86242 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-86242 was published on September 6, 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 9, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-86242 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-86242 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (89th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-86242?
CVE-2026-86242 has a CVSS base score of 8.1 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-86242?
The CVE record's solution for CVE-2026-86242, written by its CNA JFrog, names the fix: "Upgrade Bifrost HTTP transport to 2.0.0 or later." The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-86242 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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