CVE-2026-71362 — magento2
CRITICALCVE-2026-71362 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.1) CWE-863 vulnerability. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-09-24) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. A fix is available — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Adobe Commerce | Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863)
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2026-09-24. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2026-09-27.
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2026-71362.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2026-71362 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). In the shaded patch-first corner (EPSS 50%+, CVSS 7.0+).
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 384,189 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the 50–90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
Adobe Commerce is affected by an Incorrect Authorization vulnerability that could result in privilege escalation. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to gain elevated access to sensitive resources. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction.
Affected Products
commerceadobecommerce b2badobemagentoadobeResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
Detection & mitigation playbook
VulnerabilityDetect
Identify every host running the affected component and compare the installed build against the fixed version below — for source-built or distro-packaged software the version string, not a lockfile, is the source of truth (`dpkg -l`, `rpm -q`, or the binary's own `--version`).
Fix
Upgrade the affected component to the fixed release for CVE-2026-71362, or apply your distribution's backported patch — distro builds are often patched at an older version number, so check your vendor's advisory rather than the upstream version alone.
Workarounds
Close the privilege gap rather than the entry point: audit which accounts, roles and service identities can reach the affected operation, drop the component to the least privilege it actually needs, and review file and directory permissions created by earlier installs — a default left in place is what makes this reachable.
How to detect CVE-2026-71362
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2026-71362 -u https://target- Template
- Adobe Commerce/Magento - Customer Session Identity Switch
- Severity
- critical
- Impact
- Attackers can gain elevated access to sensitive resources, potentially compromising system integrity and data confidentiality.
- Remediation
- Update to the latest version of Adobe Commerce.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (0x_Akoko, dinosn), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
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