CVE-2026-5189Critical· 9.8▾ MidnightCWE-798: Use of Hard-coded Credentials in Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager versions 3.0.0 through 3.70.5 allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access to gain unauthorized read/write access to the internal database and execute …
▾ Midnight zone — Critical, or high with PoC / in-the-wild
impact 53.9 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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Disclosed via NVD
Last analysed / modified upstream
0.5%
0.5% → 0.6%
CWE-798: Use of Hard-coded Credentials in Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager versions 3.0.0 through 3.70.5 allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access to gain unauthorized read/write access to the internal database and execute arbitrary OS commands as the Nexus process user. Exploitation requires the non-default nexus.orient.binaryListenerEnabled=true configuration to be enabled.
nexus_repository_manager >= 3.0.0, < 3.71.0Upgrade past the affected range:
nexus_repository_manager 3.71.0Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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