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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2026-58253 json

NATS Server: Route API Auth Bypass

published 2026-07-08 4 mo ago modified 2026-10-25 15 d ago also BIT-nats-2026-58253 , EUVD-2026-42375 , GHSA-38x3-76xf-cq45 , JLSEC-2026-1153

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 30%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

NATS Server is a high-performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system. Prior to 2.14.0, 2.12.7, and 2.11.16, when no_auth_user was configured, a parser fast path intended for ordinary client connections could also apply to route or leafnode listeners, allowing an unauthenticated peer to bypass inter-server CONNECT authentication and operate with the privileges associated with that connection type. This issue is fixed in versions 2.14.0, 2.12.7, and 2.11.16.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami nats 2.11.16, 2.12.6
  • julia nats_server_jll 2.14.3+0
  • linuxfoundation nats-server 2.11.16, 2.12.6
  • nats nats_server 2.11.16, 2.12.6
  • nats nats_streaming_server 2.11.16, 2.12.6
  • nats-server Debian 14 2.14.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-58253

  • telegraf Azure Linux 3.0 1.31.0-27

azure linux advisories AZL-92259

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

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-2026-58253 updated cvss 8.8

github.com/nats-io/nats-server: NATS Server: Authentication bypass and privilege escalation via parser fast path

  • Red Hat Hardened Images nats-server2.12, nats-server2.14
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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
4 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L
OSV 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami nats
<2.11.16
>=2.12.0, <2.12.6
2.11.16
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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