CVE-2026-41646: Projectdiscovery Nuclei

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Nuclei is a vulnerability scanner built on a simple YAML-based DSL. From version 3.0.0 to before version 3.8.0, a vulnerability in Nuclei's JavaScript protocol runtime allows JavaScript templates to read local .js and .json files through the require() function, bypassing the default local file access restriction. This issue has been patched in version 3.8.0.

Affected products

• Projectdiscovery Nuclei: from 3.0.0, before 3.8.0 (fixed in 3.8.0)

Published 2026-05-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.