CVE-2026-17603: high-severity vulnerability in Sonatype Nexus Repository 3
Nexus Repository 3 - HikariCP connectionInitSql Injection RCE via DataStore Configuration API
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.7epss 0.9%
Nexus Repository 3 did not sufficiently restrict which HikariCP connection-pool properties could be set through the DataStore configuration API. A user holding the nx-datastores-update permission could set the connectionInitSql property to execute arbitrary SQL against the configured database on every new connection. On the default H2 database backend, this could be leveraged to achieve remote code execution as the Nexus process user.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
Sonatype · Nexus Repository 3Related CVEs — Sonatype Nexus Repository 3
In the same product, most dangerous first.
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