CVE-2026-85538

HIGHPre-NVD 8.38.3—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

This high-severity CVE scores 8.3 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.4%, top 67% 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).

Triggered by: NVD CVSS baseline
Sources: epss, secondary
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
8.3EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 8.3Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

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

An incorrect authorization vulnerability in MISP allowed authenticated users to delete attributes from events despite lacking the required perm_modify or perm_modify_org permissions.

The affected attribute deletion paths relied on organization membership checks performed by MispAttribute::deleteAttribute() but did not consistently enforce MISP's event modification authorization rules. Consequently, a user belonging to the organization associated with an event could potentially delete individual attributes or perform bulk attribute deletion even when their assigned role was not authorized to modify the event.

This created an inconsistency between attribute editing and deletion: editing an attribute correctly used MISP's ACL::canModifyEvent() authorization logic, whereas the affected deletion operations could bypass these permission checks.

An authenticated attacker with access to an affected MISP instance and membership in the organization owning an event could exploit this flaw to remove attributes from that event, potentially causing unauthorized modification or loss of threat intelligence data.

The patch introduces a common authorization check for all affected deletion paths. Before deletion, MISP now resolves the associated events and verifies that the current user is authorized to modify each event using the same authorization mechanism used by normal event and attribute modification operations.

CVSS v3
8.3
EG Score
8.3(medium)
EG Risk
38(Track)
EG Risk 38/100SSVC: 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
Severity83% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
33%
KEV
Not listed

Published

September 4, 2026

Last Modified

September 8, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Sep 4, 2026
Upstream fix merged — awaiting tagged release. Sources: github_commit.
github_commit

commit d0a6f963f (MISP/MISP)

Fix landed in MISP/MISP commit d0a6f963f — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/MISP/MISP/commit/d0a6f963f

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-85538(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 27× in last 7d / 84× 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. 2026-09-25 00:46 UTCEG score recompute
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  20. 2026-09-20 13:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  1. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescore
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  6. 2026-09-17 13:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-09-17 01:52 UTCEG score recompute
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  11. 2026-09-16 13:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  28. 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescore
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  30. 2026-09-11 14:51 UTCEG score recompute
  31. 2026-09-11 14:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  34. 2026-09-10 14:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  37. 2026-09-09 03:12 UTCEG score recompute
  38. 2026-09-09 03:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  39. 2026-09-08 22:01 UTCEPSS rescore
  40. 2026-09-08 15:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  42. 2026-09-07 19:56 UTCEG score recompute
  43. 2026-09-07 19:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  45. 2026-09-06 20:03 UTCEG score recompute
  46. 2026-09-06 20:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  47. 2026-09-06 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
  48. 2026-09-06 08:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
  49. 2026-09-05 20:12 UTCEG score recompute
  50. 2026-09-05 20:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  51. 2026-09-05 15:31 UTCEPSS rescore
  52. 2026-09-05 08:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  53. 2026-09-04 20:24 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-09-04 20:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  55. 2026-09-04 19:47 UTCEG score recompute
  56. 2026-09-04 19:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  57. 2026-09-04 09:30 UTCEG score recompute
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  59. 2026-09-04 09:08 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-85538?
CVE-2026-85538 is a high vulnerability published on September 4, 2026. An incorrect authorization vulnerability in MISP allowed authenticated users to delete attributes from events despite lacking the required permmodify or permmodify_org permissions. The affected attribute deletion paths relied on organization membership checks performed by…
When was CVE-2026-85538 disclosed?
CVE-2026-85538 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on September 4, 2026, with the most recent update on September 8, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-85538 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-85538 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 67.2% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-85538?
CVE-2026-85538 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.3 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-85538?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-85538, 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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