Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-2472

HighUpdated

Published: 20 February 2026

Published
20 February 2026
Modified
30 June 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v4 8.6 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:Amber
EPSS Score 0.0051 39.8th percentile
Risk Priority 55 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-2472 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Google Cloud Vertex (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 8.6 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique JavaScript (T1059.007); ranked at the 39.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as APIs and Models; in the Data-Related Vulnerabilities risk domain.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in the _genai/_evals_visualization component of Google Cloud Vertex AI SDK (google-cloud-aiplatform) versions from 1.98.0 up to (but not including) 1.131.0 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript in a victim's Jupyter or Colab environment…

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via injecting script escape sequences into model evaluation results or dataset JSON data.

CWE(s)

AI Security AnalysisAI

AI Category
APIs and Models
Risk Domain
Data-Related Vulnerabilities
OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
None mapped
Classification Reason
Matched keywords: ai

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution Execution
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in client applications to execute code.
Why these techniques?

Stored XSS directly enables arbitrary JavaScript execution (T1059.007) in client environments and exploitation of a client application vulnerability for code execution (T1203).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

Affected Assets

Google
Cloud Vertex
inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

References