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CVE-2026-84743
Score 3.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: LOW) published 2026-09-23. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 3.8; sources differ by 0.0.
- 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
- 3.8
- EG Score
- 3.8(high)
- EG Risk
- 17(Track)EG Risk 17/100SSVC: 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 computedSeverity38% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 12%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
September 23, 2026
Last Modified
September 23, 2026
References (1)
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-84743(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 11× in last 7d / 11× 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.
- 2026-09-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-23 18:19 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-23 18:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-23 11:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-23 11:06 UTCEG score recompute▲ 3.80
- 2026-09-23 11:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-23 11:06 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 3.8 · severity → LOW
- 2026-09-23 06:17 UTCNVD update
- 2026-09-23 06:06 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-23 06:06 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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