A vulnerability was found in H3C NX15 V100R017. Affected by this vulnerability is the function change_passwd of the file /api/login/modify of the component Administrator Password Modification Endpoint. The manipulation of the argument newPass results in weak password recovery. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploit has been made public and could be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure.
CVE-2026-15479
Score 7.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-07-12. a secondary CVSS source baseline 7.3; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 7.3
- EG Score
- 7.3(high)
- EPSS
- 19.8%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 12, 2026
Last Modified
July 14, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Jul 12, 2026IOT_Vul_Public/H3C/NX15R017/pre_auth_pwd_change at main · coconut652-7/IOT_Vul_Public · GitHub
https://github.com/coconut652-7/IOT_Vul_Public/tree/main/H3C/NX15R017/pre_auth_pwd_changeVendor Advisories for CVE-2026-15479(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 23× in last 7d / 23× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. 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. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-15 17:56 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-15 17:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-15 16:57 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-15 05:57 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-15 05:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-15 02:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-14 17:57 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-14 17:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-14 15:20 UTCNVD updateCVSS v4 → 5.5
- 2026-07-14 15:05 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v4 → 6.9
- 2026-07-14 05:44 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-14 05:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-13 22:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-13 17:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-13 17:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-13 06:12 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-13 05:47 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-13 05:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-12 17:48 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-12 17:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-12 08:07 UTCNVD updateCVSS v4 → 5.5
- 2026-07-12 05:50 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-12 05:49 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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