CVE-2026-5426
Essential information
- Published
- 16/04/2026 18:16
- Modified
- 26/05/2026 21:28
- Author
- The MITRE Corporation
- Creator
- The MITRE Corporation
- CVSS
- 9.1 CRITICAL (v3.1)
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
- CWE-321
- EPSS (First)
- P15.4% EPSS percentile: rank of this vulnerability versus all others. Higher percentile = more likely to be exploited. Learn more (score 0.00050)
- CVSS vector
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N—
CVSS metrics
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- Confidentiality impact
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- Availability impact
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- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- None
- Exploit code maturity
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- Remediation level
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- User interaction
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- Confidentiality (V)
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- Confidentiality (S)
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- Integrity (V)
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- Integrity (S)
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- Availability (V)
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- Availability (S)
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- Exploit maturity
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Description
Hard-coded ASP.NET/IIS machineKey value in Digital Knowledge KnowledgeDeliver deployments prior to February 24, 2026 allows adversaries to circumvent ViewState validation mechanisms and achieve remote code execution via malicious ViewState deserialization attacks
NVD status
- Status
- Awaiting Analysis — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
- Source
- [email protected]
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| digital knowledge / knowledgedeliver | cpe:2.3:a:digital_knowledge:knowledgedeliver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| aspnet / asp.net | cpe:2.3:a:aspnet:asp.net:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |