CVE-2026-71244

MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.56.5—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 6.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-08-05. a secondary CVSS source baseline 6.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
6.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 6.5Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

Paperless-ngx's MailAccountViewSet.test action, when called with an existing account's ID and a masked password field, reuses the stored password, account_type, refresh_token, and expiration from that existing account while allowing the caller to supply a different imap_server, imap_port, and imap_security in the same request.

CVSS v3
6.5
EG Score
6.5(high)
EG Risk
29(Track)
EG Risk 29/100SSVC: 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 computed
Severity65% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
10%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 5, 2026

Last Modified

August 10, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Aug 5, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

GitHub - paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx: A community-supported supercharged document management system: scan, index and archive all your documents · GitHub

https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-71244(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 25× in last 7d / 59× 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.

  1. 2026-08-20 23:44 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-08-20 23:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-08-20 22:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-08-20 00:57 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-08-20 00:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-08-19 17:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-08-19 02:09 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-08-19 02:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-08-18 03:21 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-08-18 03:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-08-17 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-08-17 04:30 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-08-17 04:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-08-16 05:41 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-08-16 05:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-08-16 02:15 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-08-15 06:54 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-08-15 06:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-08-15 01:31 UTCEPSS rescore
  24. 2026-08-14 07:36 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-08-14 07:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  1. 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-08-13 08:48 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-08-13 08:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-08-12 13:51 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-08-12 10:00 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-08-12 10:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-08-11 11:12 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-08-11 11:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-08-11 00:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-08-10 12:24 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-08-10 12:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-08-10 12:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-08-10 11:22 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-08-10 11:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-08-10 07:30 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-08-10 07:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-08-09 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-08-09 08:42 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-08-09 08:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-08-08 16:37 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-08-08 09:54 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-08-08 09:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-08-07 11:06 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-08-07 11:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-08-06 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  26. 2026-08-06 12:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  27. 2026-08-05 13:28 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-08-05 13:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  29. 2026-08-05 13:08 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-08-05 13:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  31. 2026-08-05 11:26 UTCEG score recompute▼ 0.60
  32. 2026-08-05 11:23 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 6.5 · severity → MEDIUM
  33. 2026-08-05 11:07 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-08-05 11:05 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-71244?
CVE-2026-71244 is a medium vulnerability published on August 5, 2026. Paperless-ngx's MailAccountViewSet.test action, when called with an existing account's ID and a masked password field, reuses the stored password, accounttype, refreshtoken, and expiration from that existing account while allowing the caller to supply a different imapserver, imapport, and…
When was CVE-2026-71244 disclosed?
CVE-2026-71244 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 5, 2026, with the most recent update on August 10, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-71244 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-71244 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 89.7% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-71244?
CVE-2026-71244 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-71244?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-71244, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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