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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.6 High

CVE-2026-14644

Nexus Repository 3 - Privilege Escalation

Description

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Sonatype Nexus Repository 3

Default version status: unaffected

  • 3.19.0 to < 3.95.0affected

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