Critical CVSS 9.1
CVE-2026-71879
NVD analysis in progress
Missing authentication in initial setup functionality left exposed until first reboot in GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit versions before 3.3.4 allows remote authenticated attackers to gain administrative control via authentication bypass
What this means
- Exposure
- Exploitable remotely over the network, without authentication and with no action from the victim. It also depends on circumstances the attacker does not control.
- Impact
- An attacker can read sensitive data and modify or destroy data.
- Likelihood
- Its EPSS score stays low: nothing points to imminent exploitation, which is no reason to leave it unpatched.
What to doPatch without waiting for the next scheduled cycle. Start with the instances exposed to the internet.
Read automatically from the CVSS vector, the weakness type (CWE) and the EPSS score. The technical description above remains the one published by NIST.