CVE-2026-17596: medium-severity vulnerability in Sonatype Nexus Repository 3
Nexus Repository 3 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Blob Store Name
Published
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.3epss 0.4%
Nexus Repository 3 was found to be vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting (XSS). A user with the nexus:blobstores:create or nexus:blobstores:update permission could set a blob store name containing malicious script content, which would later execute in the browser of another user viewing system health-check status. This issue has been fixed in version 3.95.0.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
Affected products
Sonatype · Nexus Repository 3Related CVEs — Sonatype Nexus Repository 3
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-17594HIGHNexus Repository 3 - Authorization Bypass in Repository CreationEPSS 1.0%CVE-2026-17603HIGHNexus Repository 3 - HikariCP connectionInitSql Injection RCE via DataStore Configuration APIEPSS 0.9%CVE-2026-77124HIGHNexus Repository 3 - Script Execution Disable Setting Not EnforcedEPSS 0.7%CVE-2026-97666MEDIUMNexus Repository 3 - Unsafe Reflection in ExtDirect Repository EndpointEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-14644HIGHNexus Repository 3 - Privilege EscalationEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-17601HIGHNexus Repository 3 - Wildcard Privilege Update Self-Escalation to AdministratorEPSS 0.5%