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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.9

CVE-2026-33222 json

NATS JetStream has an authorization bypass through its Management API

published 2026-03-24 7 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also BIT-nats-2026-33222 , EUVD-2026-15994 , GHSA-9983-vrx2-fg9c , GO-2026-4832 , JLSEC-2026-1128

cvss
4.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 24%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

NATS-Server is a High-Performance server for NATS.io, a cloud and edge native messaging system. Prior to versions 2.11.15 and 2.12.6, users with JetStream admin API access to restore one stream could restore to other stream names, impacting data which should have been protected against them. Versions 2.11.15 and 2.12.6 contain a fix. As a workaround, if developers have configured users to have limited JetStream restore permissions, temporarily remove those permissions.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 2.11.15, 2.12.6
  • bitnami nats 2.11.15, 2.12.6
  • julia nats_server_jll 2.14.3+0
  • linuxfoundation nats-server 2.11.15, 2.12.6
  • nats nats_server 2.11.15, 2.12.6
  • nats nats_streaming_server 2.11.15, 2.12.6
  • nats-server Debian 14 2.12.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33222

  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 15.6 0.0.20260326T203309-150000.1.155.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:1135-1

  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

  • nats-server Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23 2.12.6-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2026-33222

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-33222 updated cvss 4.9

nats-server: NATS-Server: Unauthorized data modification via JetStream stream restore

  • Red Hat Multicluster Global Hub multicluster-globalhub/multicluster-globalhub-grafana-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/oc-mirror-plugin-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
7 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 24% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
GitHub 3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
OSV 3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2
<2.11.15
>=2.12.0-RC.1, <2.12.6
2.11.15
2.12.6
go github.com/nats-io/nats-server
all versions
 no fix listed
bitnami nats
<2.11.15
>=2.12.0, <2.12.6
2.11.15
2.12.6
julia nats_server_jll
<2.14.3+0
2.14.3+0

Affected products

  • nats-io nats-server

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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