An account holding the nexus:settings:update permission in Nexus Repository 3 (or the equivalent nexus:settings permission in the legacy Nexus Repository 2) could submit arbitrary values as realm identifiers through an internal configuration API that did not validate them against the set of registered realms. Because unrecognized entries were persisted and re-evaluated on every realm load via a legacy code path, this could result in unintended code executing inside the Nexus Repository process, and in some cases a persistent authentication lockout that was not visible through the administrative UI.
CVE-2026-17593
This high-severity CVE scores 7.2 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.3%, top 76% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- 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
- 7.2
- EG Score
- 7.2(medium)
- EG Risk
- 33(Track)EG Risk 33/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity72% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 24%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 7, 2026
Last Modified
August 8, 2026
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Aug 7, 2026CVE-2026-17593 Nexus Repository 3 - Arbitrary Class Instantiation via Unsafe Realm Configuration - 2026-08-07 – Sonatype Support
https://support.sonatype.com/hc/en-us/articles/53849535836179/Sonatype Nexus Repository 3.95.0 Release Notes
https://help.sonatype.com/en/sonatype-nexus-repository-3-95-0-release-notes.htmlVendor Advisories for CVE-2026-17593(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 28× in last 7d / 58× 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.
- 2026-08-20 11:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 22:57 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 22:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 17:03 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-19 10:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-18 22:24 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-18 22:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-18 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-18 10:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-17 21:55 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-17 21:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-17 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-17 09:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-16 21:28 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-16 21:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-16 09:13 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-16 09:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-16 02:14 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-15 21:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-15 08:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-15 08:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-15 01:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-14 20:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-14 08:17 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-08-14 08:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-13 20:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-13 07:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-12 19:36 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-12 19:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-12 13:50 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-12 07:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-11 19:05 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-11 19:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-11 13:42 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-11 06:43 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-11 06:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-11 00:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-10 18:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-10 06:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-09 18:01 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-09 18:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-09 13:46 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-09 05:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-08 17:33 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-08 17:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-08 16:37 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-08 05:18 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-08 05:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-08 04:22 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-08 04:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-07 19:29 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-07 19:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-07 18:29 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-07 17:25 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-07 16:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-07 16:27 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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