Nexus Repository 3 is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) via the SSL Certificate Retrieval endpoint. A user holding the nexus:ssl-truststore:read permission could cause the server to initiate outbound connections to internal or otherwise restricted network hosts. This issue affects Nexus Repository 3.0.0 through versions prior to 3.94.0.
CVE-2026-7494
This medium-severity CVE scores 5.3 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit-prediction score not yet available (the EPSS model rescores nightly; freshly-published CVEs typically appear within 48 hours). 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).
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 5.3
- EG Score
- 5.3(low)
- EPSS
- 4.2%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 14, 2026
Last Modified
July 15, 2026
References (2)
- 103e4ec9-0a87-450b-af77-479448ddef11https://help.sonatype.com/en/sonatype-nexus-repository-3-94-0-release-notes.html
- 103e4ec9-0a87-450b-af77-479448ddef11https://support.sonatype.com/hc/en-us/articles/53126069518227
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-7494(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 5× in last 7d / 5× 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 16:57 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-15 14:34 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-15 14:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-14 16:10 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-14 16:10 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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