9.8Critical

CVE-2026-12571

An authentication bypass in ManageEngine DDI Central's password-reset workflow allows account takeover.

What this means for your business

  • An attacker can use it remotely, over a network, without a login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
  • FIRST's prediction model gives it a 2% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 74% of all known flaws.

What to do

  1. 1Ask your IT team or provider whether any of your systems use the affected product.
  2. 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.

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Scoring

CVSS
9.8 (v3.1)
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-287
Assigned by
0fc0942c-577d-436f-ae8e-945763c79b02

Dates

Published
2026-08-11
Last modified
2026-08-31
Sources
NVD

References