CVE-2026-5189: Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 arbitrary OS commands as the Nexus process user. Exploitation requires the non-default nexus.orient.binaryListenerEnabled=true configuration to be enabled.

Affected products

• Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager: from 3.0.0, before 3.71.0 (fixed in 3.71.0)

Published 2026-04-15. Last modified 2026-09-18.