CVE-2026-2072

High

Published: 25 March 2026

Published

25 March 2026

Modified

25 March 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L

EPSS Score 0.0005 14.4th percentile

Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2026-2072 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 8.2 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 14.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-15 (Information Output Filtering).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) and 2 other techniques. What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.

Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match

prevent

Requires timely remediation of the specific XSS flaw through vendor-recommended upgrades to version 11.0.5-00 or later.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match

prevent

Filters information outputs to encode or escape user-supplied data, preventing malicious script execution in cross-site contexts.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match

prevent

Validates all user inputs to the Analytics probe component, blocking malicious payloads that could lead to XSS exploitation.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

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T1185 Browser Session Hijacking Collection

Adversaries may take advantage of security vulnerabilities and inherent functionality in browser software to change content, modify user-behaviors, and intercept information as part of various browser session hijacking techniques.

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T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie Credential Access

An adversary may steal web application or service session cookies and use them to gain access to web applications or Internet services as an authenticated user without needing credentials.

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Why these techniques?

XSS in authenticated web app directly enables exploitation of public-facing application (T1190) and facilitates browser session hijacking or web session cookie theft for data exfiltration (T1185, T1539).

Confidence: MEDIUM · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

NVD Description

Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor (Analytics probe component), Hitachi Ops Center Analyzer.This issue affects Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor:; Hitachi Ops Center Analyzer: from 10.0.0-00 before 11.0.5-00.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2026-2072 is a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (CWE-79) in the Analytics probe component of Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor and Hitachi Ops Center Analyzer. It affects versions of these products from 10.0.0-00 before 11.0.5-00. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.2 (High), with vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L.

An authenticated attacker with low privileges (PR:L) can exploit this vulnerability over the network (AV:N) with low complexity (AC:L), provided a targeted user interacts with malicious content (UI:R). Successful exploitation changes scope to cross-origin contexts (S:C), enabling high confidentiality impact such as theft of sensitive data, alongside low integrity and availability impacts.

Hitachi's security advisory (hitachi-sec-2026-114) details the issue, with mitigation achieved by upgrading to Hitachi Ops Center Analyzer version 11.0.5-00 or later.