CVE-2026-17601High· 7.2▾ TwilightA user holding a permission to update privilege definitions could modify a wildcard privilege already assigned to their own role to grant broader permissions than they were authorized to hold, including full administrative access, withou…
▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw
impact 39.6 · likelihood 0 · exploitation 0
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Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via NVD
Last analysed / modified upstream
0.2%
A user holding a permission to update privilege definitions could modify a wildcard privilege already assigned to their own role to grant broader permissions than they were authorized to hold, including full administrative access, without any additional authorization check or role reassignment.
nexus_repository_manager >= 3.19.0, < 3.95.0Upgrade past the affected range:
nexus_repository_manager 3.95.0Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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