{"id":"CVE-2026-91048","aliases":["EUVD-2026-88661","GHSA-pq4f-45cw-mm5m"],"status":"published","title":"Apache Karaf: Missing authorization on the jdbc:* shell command scope allows privilege escalation to remote code execution via jdbc:ds-create","description":"The jdbc shell command scope shipped no org.apache.karaf.command.acl.jdbc.cfg. Karaf's command guard (SecuredSessionFactoryImpl) treats a command with no matching ACL rule as allowed, so any authenticated shell session (including one holding only the viewer role) could run every jdbc:* command. jdbc:ds-create stores a fully attacker-controlled JDBC URL into a pax-jdbc-config factory Configuration with no validation. pax-jdbc-config reactively turns that into a live DataSource. Several JDBC drivers run code or SQL at connection time based on URL parameters (e.g. H2 INIT=RUNSCRIPT), so a viewer-level shell user could reach arbitrary code execution, bypassing the admin-role gate that already protects shell:exec. This is a privilege-escalation-to-RCE chain, not merely an \"admin misconfiguration\".\n\n\nThe same applies to jms:* shell commands.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"critical","assessor":"adp","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.00544,"percentile":0.4595,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-862"],"published":"2026-09-29T08:34:47Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:29Z","products":[{"vendor":"apache","product":"karaf"},{"vendor":"apache software foundation","product":"apache karaf"}],"references":[{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread/ph3867mxh2tft75w0o1hpn10f5mbmw32","tags":["vendor-advisory","Mailing List","Vendor Advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/09/28/9","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory","web"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-91048","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pq4f-45cw-mm5m"},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/91xxx/CVE-2026-91048.json","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-91048","title":"Apache Karaf: Missing authorization on the jdbc:* shell command scope allows privilege escalation to remote code execution via jdbc:ds-create","description":"The jdbc shell command scope shipped no org.apache.karaf.command.acl.jdbc.cfg. Karaf's command guard (SecuredSessionFactoryImpl) treats a command with no matching ACL rule as allowed, so any authenticated shell session (including one holding only the viewer role) could run every jdbc:* command. jdbc:ds-create stores a fully attacker-controlled JDBC URL into a pax-jdbc-config factory Configuration with no validation. pax-jdbc-config reactively turns that into a live DataSource. Several JDBC drivers run code or SQL at connection time based on URL parameters (e.g. H2 INIT=RUNSCRIPT), so a viewer-level shell user could reach arbitrary code execution, bypassing the admin-role gate that already protects shell:exec. This is a privilege-escalation-to-RCE chain, not merely an \"admin misconfiguration\".\n\n\nThe same applies to jms:* shell commands.","status":"published","published":"2026-09-29T08:34:47.193Z","modified":"2026-10-01T14:13:30.717Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"critical","assessor":"adp"}],"cwes":["CWE-862"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:19:52.773089Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-88661","description":"The jdbc shell command scope shipped no org.apache.karaf.command.acl.jdbc.cfg. Karaf's command guard (SecuredSessionFactoryImpl) treats a command with no matching ACL rule as allowed, so any authenticated shell session (including one holding only the viewer role) could run every jdbc:* command. jdbc:ds-create stores a fully attacker-controlled JDBC URL into a pax-jdbc-config factory Configuration with no validation. pax-jdbc-config reactively turns that into a live DataSource. Several JDBC drivers run code or SQL at connection time based on URL parameters (e.g. H2 INIT=RUNSCRIPT), so a viewer-level shell user could reach arbitrary code execution, bypassing the admin-role gate that already protects shell:exec. This is a privilege-escalation-to-RCE chain, not merely an \"admin misconfiguration\".\n\n\nThe same applies to jms:* shell commands.","status":"published","published":"2026-09-29T08:34:47Z","modified":"2026-10-01T14:13:30Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"critical"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T17:27:46.15359Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-pq4f-45cw-mm5m","title":"The jdbc shell command scope shipped no org.apache.karaf.command.acl.jdbc.cfg. Karaf's command...","description":"The jdbc shell command scope shipped no org.apache.karaf.command.acl.jdbc.cfg. Karaf's command guard (SecuredSessionFactoryImpl) treats a command with no matching ACL rule as allowed, so any authenticated shell session (including one holding only the viewer role) could run every jdbc:* command. jdbc:ds-create stores a fully attacker-controlled JDBC URL into a pax-jdbc-config factory Configuration with no validation. pax-jdbc-config reactively turns that into a live DataSource. Several JDBC drivers run code or SQL at connection time based on URL parameters (e.g. H2 INIT=RUNSCRIPT), so a viewer-level shell user could reach arbitrary code execution, bypassing the admin-role gate that already protects shell:exec. This is a privilege-escalation-to-RCE chain, not merely an \"admin misconfiguration\".\n\n\nThe same applies to jms:* shell commands.","status":"published","published":"2026-09-29T09:31:18Z","modified":"2026-09-29T12:31:28Z","cwes":["CWE-862"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:12:33.186319Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-91048","description":"The jdbc shell command scope shipped no org.apache.karaf.command.acl.jdbc.cfg. Karaf's command guard (SecuredSessionFactoryImpl) treats a command with no matching ACL rule as allowed, so any authenticated shell session (including one holding only the viewer role) could run every jdbc:* command. jdbc:ds-create stores a fully attacker-controlled JDBC URL into a pax-jdbc-config factory Configuration with no validation. pax-jdbc-config reactively turns that into a live DataSource. Several JDBC drivers run code or SQL at connection time based on URL parameters (e.g. H2 INIT=RUNSCRIPT), so a viewer-level shell user could reach arbitrary code execution, bypassing the admin-role gate that already protects shell:exec. This is a privilege-escalation-to-RCE chain, not merely an \"admin misconfiguration\".\n\n\nThe same applies to jms:* shell commands.","status":"published","published":"2026-09-29T09:17:10.193Z","modified":"2026-10-07T20:14:54.487Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"critical","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-862"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:12:52.413234Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2026-91048","title":"Apache Karaf: Missing authorization on the jdbc:* shell command scope allows privilege escalation to remote code execution via jdbc:ds-create","description":"The jdbc shell command scope shipped no org.apache.karaf.command.acl.jdbc.cfg. Karaf's command guard (SecuredSessionFactoryImpl) treats a command with no matching ACL rule as allowed, so any authenticated shell session (including one holding only the viewer role) could run every jdbc:* command. jdbc:ds-create stores a fully attacker-controlled JDBC URL into a pax-jdbc-config factory Configuration with no validation. pax-jdbc-config reactively turns that into a live DataSource. Several JDBC drivers run code or SQL at connection time based on URL parameters (e.g. H2 INIT=RUNSCRIPT), so a viewer-level shell user could reach arbitrary code execution, bypassing the admin-role gate that already protects shell:exec. This is a privilege-escalation-to-RCE chain, not merely an \"admin misconfiguration\".\n\n\nThe same applies to jms:* shell commands.","status":"published","published":"2026-09-29T08:34:47.193Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:29.198826428Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"critical"}],"cwes":["CWE-862"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:45:20.269367Z"}]}}