Vulnerability in Sonatype Nexus Repository

CVE-2026-5189

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 ar…

EPSS: 0.000 (11.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Sonatype Nexus Repository — versions 3.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-798 — Use of Hard-coded Credentials

References

help.sonatype.com/en/sonatype-nexus-repository-3-71-0-release-notes.html (patch)
support.sonatype.com/hc/en-us/articles/50817138825491 (vendor-advisory)