CVE-2026-45391 (GCVE-0-2026-45391)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-12 01:06 – Updated: 2026-06-02 15:51
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Local privilege escalation in Cribl Edge for Linux
Summary
A command injection vulnerability in Cribl Edge for Linux versions 3.2.0 through 4.17.0 allows a local unprivileged user to execute arbitrary commands in the context of the Cribl Edge service account.
Severity
7.8 (High)
9.8 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-05-15 10:56 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://docs.cribl.io/edge/release-notes/release-… | release-notes |
| https://trust.cribl.io/notifications | vendor-advisory |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cribl | Cribl Edge |
Affected:
3.2.0 , < 4.17.1
(semver)
Unaffected: 4.17.1 (semver) |
guessed |
Date Public
2026-04-20 00:00
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.