Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-92591

Public PoC
Published
16 September 2026
Modified
22 September 2026
CVSS Score v4 8.2
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Raw vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/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:X
EPSS Score 0.0024 15th percentile
Risk Priority 42 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2026-92591 is a high-severity Failing Open (CWE-636) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 8.2 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 15th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to CP-12 (Safe Mode) and SA-8 (Security and Privacy Engineering Principles) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Craft CMS 5.0.0 through 5.10.12 treats a database connection failure as meaning that Craft is not installed, which makes anonymous installer actions — including install/validate-site — reachable on an installed production site whenever PHP remains available but the configured MySQL…

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endpoint does not. The action accepts a site name, serializes it through Site::getName(), and expands ${NAME} expressions using App::env(). An unauthenticated attacker who obtained a guest session cookie and matching CSRF token before the outage and whose session remains valid during it can submit a predictable variable name (for example Craft's conventional CRAFT_SECURITY_KEY) and receive its value, disclosing Craft secrets, process environment variables, $_SERVER entries, or PHP constants such as the security key, database credentials, or API keys. The issue requires an independently occurring database outage; the vulnerability itself provides no way to induce it. Fixed in 5.10.13.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

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Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

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Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

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Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V3.2.1
  • V7.4.1
  • V8.3.3
  • V10.3.4

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

CP-12 Safe Mode partial match

CP-12 forces entry into a safe mode on detected conditions, limiting exposure but not covering every failure path.

SA-8 requires application of engineering principles that include fail-secure design, reducing the likelihood the weakness is introduced.

SC-24 directly requires the system to fail to a known state that preserves security properties, structurally stopping fallback to a less-secure mode.

SI-17 mandates explicit fail-safe procedures that activate on indicated failures, preventing the insecure fallback behavior.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.AA-05 partial match
prevents

Least-privilege policy and enforcement directly counters the permissive-access fallback example in the CWE.

PR.PS-01 partial match
prevents

Hardened baselines and configuration management reduce the chance that error paths default to insecure settings.

PR.PS-06 partial match
prevents

Secure-development practices explicitly include designing error and failure handling to remain in a secure state.

References