Sonatype Nexus Repository up to 3.97.x privileges management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Sonatype Nexus Repository up to 3.97.x. Impacted is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-113372. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Sonatype Nexus Repository up to 3.97.x. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Sonatype Nexus Repository 3 returns the private signing key of a YUM proxy or group repository to an account that holds only the read privilege for administering that repository. The account does not need the privilege to edit the repository. A party that holds the key can sign repository metadata as that repository.

It is possible to read the advisory at help.sonatype.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-113372 since 10/20/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 3.98.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Sonatype

Name

• Nexus Repository

Version

• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2
• 3.3
• 3.4
• 3.5
• 3.6
• 3.7
• 3.8
• 3.9
• 3.10
• 3.11
• 3.12
• 3.13
• 3.14
• 3.15
• 3.16
• 3.17
• 3.18
• 3.19
• 3.20
• 3.21
• 3.22
• 3.23
• 3.24
• 3.25
• 3.26
• 3.27
• 3.28
• 3.29
• 3.30
• 3.31
• 3.32
• 3.33
• 3.34
• 3.35
• 3.36
• 3.37
• 3.38
• 3.39
• 3.40
• 3.41
• 3.42
• 3.43
• 3.44
• 3.45
• 3.46
• 3.47
• 3.48
• 3.49
• 3.50
• 3.51
• 3.52
• 3.53
• 3.54
• 3.55
• 3.56
• 3.57
• 3.58
• 3.59
• 3.60
• 3.61
• 3.62
• 3.63
• 3.64
• 3.65
• 3.66
• 3.67
• 3.68
• 3.69
• 3.70
• 3.71
• 3.72
• 3.73
• 3.74
• 3.75
• 3.76
• 3.77
• 3.78
• 3.79
• 3.80
• 3.81
• 3.82
• 3.83
• 3.84
• 3.85
• 3.86
• 3.87
• 3.88
• 3.89
• 3.90
• 3.91
• 3.92
• 3.93
• 3.94
• 3.95
• 3.96
• 3.97

License

• commercial

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