01 Record
CVE-2026-84731
Pre-Authentication Admin Bypass and Remote Code Execution in Nutanix Prism Gateway inside AOS
CriticalPUBLISHEDCNA: Nutanix
CNA base score9.3 CVSS v4.0CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:P/S:N/AU:Y/R:U/V:C/RE:H/U:Red
02 Description
Pre-Authentication Admin Bypass and Remote Code Execution in Nutanix Prism Gateway inside AOS
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Assessed, none found. CISA's assessment recorded neither public exploit code nor evidence of exploitation when it was made.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationnoneCISA recorded no public exploit code and no evidence of exploitation.
- AutomatableyesAn attacker can reliably automate reconnaissance through exploitation, so this scales.
- Technical ImpacttotalSuccessful exploitation gives total control of the vulnerable component.
- EPSS probability
- 1.28% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 69.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.3 (CVSS v4.0), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:P/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:N/AU:Y/R:U/V:C/RE:H/U:Red
- NVD analysis status
- Awaiting Analysis. NVD last modified this record on 2026-10-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2026-10-15 17:10Z13 DAYS AGO
- Last updated
- 2026-10-15 19:14Z13 DAYS AGO
- Reserved
- 2026-09-02
- Assigning CNA
- Nutanix
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Critical (CVSS 9.3)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:P/S:N/AU:Y/R:U/V:C/RE:H/U:Red
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- b757e72f977a04fba6c10f429bac59fba4e522494ec4fa30f8029ded3f558985
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- download.nutanix.comhttps://download.nutanix.com/alerts/Security_Advisory_0058.pdf
- portal.nutanix.comhttps://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/list?type=software&filterKey=software&filterVal=AOS
- www.nutanix.comhttps://www.nutanix.com/support
07 Remediation
Upgrade affected Nutanix AOS deployments to version 7.3.1.18, 7.5.2, 7.6.0.8 or later fixed releases.