Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate to Key Manager Plus with low-privilege account
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ExploitAccess another user's ACME credential object
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ExecutionBypass improper access-control check
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ImpactModify victim's certificate deployment credentials
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Insufficient granularity of access control
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| Exploitation Conditions | Requires an authenticated Key Manager Plus account (PR:L) on an instance running a version before build 7151; the attacker then modifies another user's ACME certificate deployment credentials via the improper access-control flaw. Limiting factors: valid application credentials are mandatory (no unauthenticated path), the CVSS vector rates attack complexity high (AC:H), and exploitation is bounded to the ACME certificate deployment credential functionality. The specific precondition or configuration that triggers the access-control failure is not described in the available sources. The only complete fix stated by the vendor is upgrading to build 7151. |
| Impact | Signals are moderate and partly internally inconsistent. The CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.1 is driven largely by S:C (scope change) and C:H, yet the description describes an authenticated user modifying another user's ACME certificate deployment credentials - an access-control/integrity problem, not a disclosure one - so the C:H confidentiality weighting is hard to reconcile with the stated behavior and should be verified with Zoho. The attack vector is network (AV:N) but requires authentication (PR:L) and is rated high complexity (AC:H), both of which meaningfully reduce real-world exploitability; the attacker must already hold a valid Key Manager Plus account. The vuln.today priority is 'this_week' (not act_now/emergency), and no EPSS score, CISA KEV listing, or public PoC/exploit reference is present in the input, so there is no evidence of active exploitation or mass-exploitation pressure. Net: a legitimate multi-user authorization weakness worth patching on a normal cycle, not a drop-everything emergency, with the caveat that the C:H rating and the modification-only description conflict and warrant vendor confirmation. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A low-privileged but authenticated user of ManageEngine Key Manager Plus (before build 7151) abuses the improper access-control check to reach and modify ACME certificate deployment credentials belonging to another user. By altering those deployment credentials, the attacker could disrupt or redirect certificate deployment for the victim's resources. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the exact trigger is not described in the available sources. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Nov 03, 2026
Improper access control in ManageEngine Key Manager Plus builds prior to 7151 lets an authenticated user modify another user's ACME certificate deployment credentials, an integrity-only impact confined to that credential functionality. Exploitation requires a valid Key Manager Plus account (PR:L) on an unpatched build, and no public exploit identified at time of analysis. Our assessment rates the issue moderate: the CVE record's published 7.1 vector (AC:H, C:H, changed scope) is more severe than the assessed integrity-only impact, and the 'this_week' decision label places the upgrade in normal weekly remediation rather than emergency response.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade ManageEngine Key Manager Plus to build 7151; the vendor states that updating is the only complete fix, and no workaround or configuration-level mitigation is documented in the available sources. Plan the upgrade within the current weekly cycle consistent with the 'this_week' priority label, and consult https://www.manageengine.com/key-manager/advisory/cve-2026-77777.html for the vendor's installation steps and any build-specific notes. Because the flaw only matters where ACME certificate deployment credentials are in use, confirming after the upgrade that each deployment record is owned by the expected account provides a useful verification step that the credential data was not altered.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Key Manager Plus is Zoho's certificate lifecycle management product, and its ACME (RFC 8555) integration automates issuance and deployment of TLS certificates to target servers, holding per-deployment credentials for each user. CWE-1220 (Insecure Granularity of Access Control) describes the root cause class: the authorization check is not fine-grained enough to bind an authenticated user's actions to their own ACME deployment records, so a valid account can reach and alter another user's deployment credentials. The specific precondition or configuration that exposes the access-control failure is not described in the available sources, and the assessed vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N) limits impact to integrity of the credential data with no confidentiality or availability effect; the CVE record's published vector instead lists AC:H, C:H and changed scope, which the independent assessment does not corroborate.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
Authenticated network user (PR:L, AV:N); nothing in evidence indicates added complexity so AC:L; impact is modification of another user's credentials (I:L), with no disclosed read (C:N) or availability loss (A:N).
Primary rating from Vendor (Zohocorp).
CVSS VectorVendor: Zohocorp
Lifecycle Timeline
2DescriptionCVE.org
ManageEngine Key Manager Plus versions before 7151 are vulnerable to an improper access control issue that allow authenticated users to modify another user's ACME certificate deployment credentials.
Executive ViewAI
CVE-2026-77777 affects ManageEngine Key Manager Plus builds prior to 7151, allowing authenticated users to tamper with other users' ACME certificate deployment credentials. While the integrity-only impact is confined to that functionality and rated moderate internally, certificate credential compromise can undermine trust in automated certificate management, so security leadership should ensure timely remediation.
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis. Interim mitigations include enforcing least privilege and limiting Key Manager Plus accounts to essential personnel, enabling detailed audit logging and alerting on ACME credential changes, reviewing existing deployment credentials for unauthorized modifications, and isolating the management interface from untrusted networks.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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Attack Technique
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
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EUVD-2026-115728
GHSA-9c74-3mf8-v92c
NVD
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EPSS
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