ZoneMinder is a free, open source closed-circuit television software application. In versions 1.34.0 through 1.36.38, the web interface mishandles failed token authentication in web/includes/auth.php. validateToken() returns false when a token is malformed or has an invalid signature, but the caller assigns that value to the global $user variable; because web/index.php tests isset($user), boolean false is treated as a present user and the normal login redirect is skipped. This can dispatch views that rely on the outer authentication gate, including the zones view, which accepts an attacker-selected monitor ID and discloses monitor and zone metadata without an independent permission check. Permission helpers receive the false user value and deny privileged operations, so unauthorized state changes have not been established. This vulnerability is fixed in version 1.36.63, where conversion to ZM\User objects causes invalid token state to fail before view dispatch. Later defense-in-depth changes explicitly leave $user unset after failed token validation and reject non-ZM\User values at the web authentication gate.
CVE-2026-104198
“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.
This medium-severity CVE scores 5.3 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.4% (31st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.
- CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
The CVE record names the fixed release — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 5.3
- EG Score
- 5.3MEDIUMmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 55EG Risk 55/100
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)Severity53% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 5.3 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation40% × 40%EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.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 public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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: The CVE record names the fixed release. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 0.4%
- EPSS %ILE
- 31st
- 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 (5.3): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.3 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 5.3 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.a secondary CVSS source · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
- EG Likelihood
- 0.4% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-17). 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: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source: 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).
The CVE record names the fixed release. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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; 60 days if it is not.
In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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
October 15, 2026
Last Modified
October 15, 2026
Advisory Details (7)
Auto-updated Oct 15, 2026commit d71fbb805e46 (ZoneMinder/zoneminder)
Fix landed in ZoneMinder/zoneminder commit d71fbb805e46 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/commit/d71fbb805e4695a9599498a1a2ee3b286ef41c96commit 969baa389120 (ZoneMinder/zoneminder)
Fix landed in ZoneMinder/zoneminder commit 969baa389120 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/commit/969baa38912018b502617d09e836d0bfa57d4af6commit 95460a945ab7 (ZoneMinder/zoneminder)
Fix landed in ZoneMinder/zoneminder commit 95460a945ab7 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/commit/95460a945ab7e5c63dc0551bdd6230a3026ceb9ecommit 71bb186b230d (ZoneMinder/zoneminder)
Fix landed in ZoneMinder/zoneminder commit 71bb186b230d — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/commit/71bb186b230dbe2aba5e2f804c36810aae892088commit 6b94903e634f (ZoneMinder/zoneminder)
Fix landed in ZoneMinder/zoneminder commit 6b94903e634f — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/commit/6b94903e634fdb46cb71a48eadccf1aa14f0c2bbcommit 144a04ca4fff (ZoneMinder/zoneminder)
Fix landed in ZoneMinder/zoneminder commit 144a04ca4fff — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/commit/144a04ca4fff5fd02745ce8afc239ba5e05cf8acAuthentication Bypass via Loose Type Comparison / isset($user) Check in Token Validation · Advisory · ZoneMinder/zoneminder · GitHub
https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/security/advisories/GHSA-23fj-frfw-hmcrWeakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 8× 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.
- 2026-10-18 05:09 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 31st percentile
- 2026-10-16 16:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 31st percentile
- 2026-10-15 21:26 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-15 20:38 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-15 20:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-15 19:59 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 5.3 MEDIUM
- 2026-10-15 19:57 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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