CVE-2026-85956: Progress Software Corporation Marklogic Server

Critical severity, CVSS 9.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Progress MarkLogic Server 12.x releases before 12.1.0 and 11.x releases before 11.3.7 allow a remote attacker with delegated database-administrator privileges to perform backup or restore operations on forests outside the authorized database scope, which could result in unauthorized access to or modification of security-critical data.

Affected products

• Progress Software Corporation Marklogic Server: from 11.0.0, before 11.3.7 (fixed in 11.3.7); from 12.0.0, before 12.1.0 (fixed in 12.1.0)

Published 2026-10-12. Last modified 2026-10-14.