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CVE-2026-58253highCWE-287

NATS Server: Route API Auth Bypass

21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 8.8epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 87% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L
Affected products
nats-io · nats-server