CVE-2026-17596: Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Nexus Repository 3 was found to be vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting (XSS). A user with the nexus:blobstores:create or nexus:blobstores:update permission could set a blob store name containing malicious script content, which would later execute in the browser of another user viewing system health-check status. This issue has been fixed in version 3.95.0.

Affected products

• Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager: from 3.16.0, before 3.95.0 (fixed in 3.95.0)

Published 2026-08-07. Last modified 2026-09-22.