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CVE-2026-87660 — Fabric Operating System

HIGH

CVE-2026-87660 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.1) CWE-732 vulnerability in broadcom fabric operating system. A fix is available — see the affected versions and patch details below.

An improper file permission and missing authorization vulnerability exists in the diagnostic kernel module subsystem of Brocade Fabric OS versions before 9.2.2d and 10.0.0 through 10.0.0a1.…

Published
Updated
Affected
1 product
Patched
See advisory
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Oct 15, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

No confirmed exploitation observed yet

  • A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
  • CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2026-87660.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.1%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs1th percentile — riskier than 1% of all scored CVEsHighest risk

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

CVE-2026-87660 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.

Where this sits among everything scored

Of 390,400 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.

Description

An improper file permission and missing authorization vulnerability exists in the diagnostic kernel module subsystem of Brocade Fabric OS versions before 9.2.2d and 10.0.0 through 10.0.0a1. An unprivileged local user can invoke privileged hardware tests, force system error conditions, reset hardware blades, or disrupt storage fabric operations.

Affected Products

1 product · 2 configurations
OS
fabric operating systembroadcom
≥ 10.0.0 && < 10.0.1
range

Detection & mitigation playbook

Vendor / appliance

  1. Detect

    Inventory every broadcom fabric operating system deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.

  2. Fix

    Apply the broadcom fabric operating system security patch or hotfix for CVE-2026-87660 on the affected version, following the vendor advisory for your exact build.

  3. Workarounds

    Put an independent control in front of the weakness: restrict the affected endpoint or interface to trusted networks, require an additional authentication factor or proxy-level check, and invalidate existing sessions and credentials in case the flaw has already been used. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.

Frequently Asked Questions

An improper file permission and missing authorization vulnerability exists in the diagnostic kernel module subsystem of Brocade Fabric OS versions before 9.2.2d and 10.0.0 through 10.0.0a1. An unprivileged local user can invoke privileged hardware tests, force system error conditions, reset hardware blades, or disrupt storage fabric operations.
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CVE-2026-87660: Fabric Operating System (High 7.1)