CVE-2026-14644High· 7.2▾ TwilightNexus Repository 3 contained a privilege escalation vulnerability in the REST privileges API. An authenticated user with permission to manage privileges could, under certain role configurations, escalate their own access to full administ…
▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw
impact 39.6 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Aug 9.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via NVD
0.2%
0.2% → 0.3%
Last analysed / modified upstream
— → 7.2
none → high
Nexus Repository 3 contained a privilege escalation vulnerability in the REST privileges API. An authenticated user with permission to manage privileges could, under certain role configurations, escalate their own access to full administrator by exploiting a type-confusion flaw in the privilege update endpoint.
nexus_repository_manager >= 3.19.0, < 3.95.0Upgrade past the affected range:
nexus_repository_manager 3.95.0Field changes observed since this record was first indexed.
Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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