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JP1/Base CVE-2026-86574

| EUVDEUVD-2026-110650 CRITICAL
Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122)
2026-10-27 Hitachi GHSA-g8rj-6x73-6prx
9.8
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: Hitachi
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Reach JP1/Base network service
  2. Delivery
    Send crafted malformed input
  3. Exploit
    Overflow heap buffer (CWE-122)
  4. Execution
    Corrupt heap memory structures
  5. Persist
    Execute code or crash service
  6. Impact
    Full host compromise or DoS

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Heap buffer bounds checking
MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique across 1 tactic: Execution

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Exploitation Conditions

The available sources (vendor advisory and NVD/EUVD) state only that a heap-based buffer overflow (CWE-122) affects JP1/Base from 11-00 before 12-50-54; the specific feature, protocol, configuration setting, or input that triggers the overflow is not described in the available sources. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) indicates the vendor assessed it as remotely reachable without authentication or user interaction, implying exploitability against a reachable JP1/Base instance, but no condition such as 'when feature X is enabled' is documented. Principal limiting factors are therefore scope-based rather than configuration-based: only versions 11-00 through pre-12-50-54 are affected (12-50-54 and later are fixed), and exploitation requires network reachability to the JP1/Base service, which in typical deployments is an internal operations-management component rather than an internet-exposed one.

Impact

Signals mostly converge toward high priority but with one notable tension. The CVSS 3.1 base score is 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) describing a network-reachable, low-complexity, unauthenticated flaw with high confidentiality, integrity and availability impact - a worst-case severity profile - and the vuln.today decision label is 'act_now', with a vendor patch already available. Against that, the EPSS score is only 0.52% (44th percentile), indicating a low modeled probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, and there is no CISA KEV listing and no public exploit reference in the input (exploitation status: no public exploit identified at time of analysis). These are not contradictory: EPSS reflects observed/predicted real-world activity, which is typically low for a freshly disclosed vendor-reported bug in region-concentrated enterprise software, whereas the CVSS vector reflects theoretical severity. The 'act_now' label is driven by the critical CVSS profile plus patch availability rather than by evidence of active exploitation. No SSVC exploitation/automatable/technical-impact decision values were supplied, so that framework cannot be independently applied here. Net: this is a genuinely high-severity, patch-now issue on the merits of its CVSS profile and the vendor advisory, but there is currently no evidence of in-the-wild exploitation - prioritize remediation of exposed JP1/Base instances while recognizing the present exploitation likelihood is low.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

A remote attacker with network access to a JP1/Base service on an affected version (11-00 up to but not including 12-50-54) sends crafted input that overflows a heap buffer (CWE-122). Given the CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N), this requires no authentication or user interaction and low attack complexity, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution or service compromise. No public exploit code was identified at the time of analysis, and the specific trigger is not described in the available sources.

Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Why: CRITICAL severity.
Patch available 0.5% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 28, 2026

Heap-based buffer overflow in Hitachi JP1/Base versions 11-00 through before 12-50-54 can be triggered by remote, unauthenticated attackers (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) and, per the vendor's severity rating of 9.8, may lead to full loss of confidentiality, integrity and availability of the affected service. Hitachi has released a fix in 12-50-54 and later, so exposure is limited to installations that have not yet been updated and that are reachable over the network. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the EPSS score is modest at 0.52% (44th percentile), although the vendor's own advisory and the vuln.today decision signal both point to remediation as an immediate priority.

RemediationAI

Vendor-released patch: upgrade JP1/Base to 12-50-54 or later, following the Hitachi advisory at https://www.hitachi.com/products/it/software/security/info/vuls/hitachi-sec-2026-156/index.html for the product-specific update procedure and any required coordination with dependent JP1 components; confirm the post-upgrade version rather than assuming a bundle refresh applied it. Until the upgrade is complete, the practical exposure limiter is reachability: the assessment treats the flaw as remotely triggerable against a reachable JP1/Base instance, and JP1/Base is normally an internal operations-management component, so restricting network access to the JP1/Base service to the management hosts and consoles that legitimately require it reduces the attack surface - at the cost of breaking agent, manager or console communications that originate elsewhere, which must be enumerated before applying such filtering. No workaround or configuration toggle that removes the overflow path is documented in the available sources, and no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, so the version upgrade remains the only confirmed complete fix.

Affected VersionsENISA

JP1/Base 11-00 <12-50-54

Affected Packages

euvd jp1_base fix: 12-50-54

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The flaw is a classic heap-based buffer overflow (CWE-122): data written into a heap-allocated buffer exceeds its allocated size, corrupting adjacent heap metadata or object contents and, in the general case for this class, potentially allowing an attacker to influence control flow or crash the process. JP1/Base is Hitachi's foundational operations-management component (event/agent services, user management and job-execution foundations) on which other JP1 products rely, so a memory-safety defect in it is reachable from the network plane the product uses for its management communications. The CVSS vector places the vulnerability on the network attack path with low attack complexity, no privileges and no user interaction, which describes severity and reachability rather than the mechanism: the specific feature, protocol message, configuration setting or input length that overflows the heap buffer is not described in the available sources. Affected CPE coverage is cpe:2.3:a:hitachi:jp1/base for versions from 11-00 up to, but not including, 12-50-54; the CPE string in the feed does not enumerate version boundaries, so the EUVD/vendor range is the authoritative scoping data.

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Severity by source

Vendor (Hitachi) PRIMARY 9.8 CRITICAL
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
vuln.today AI 9.8 CRITICAL

Vendor vector retained: heap overflow assessed as network-reachable, unauthenticated, low-complexity with high C/I/A; sources describe no trigger limiting these, so no downgrade is justified.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (Hitachi).

CVSS VectorVendor: Hitachi

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

2
Patch available
Oct 27, 2026 - 10:01 EUVD
CVE Published
Oct 27, 2026 - 09:37 cve.org
CRITICAL 9.8

DescriptionCVE.org

Heap-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in JP1/Base.

This issue affects JP1/Base: from 11-00 before 12-50-54.

Executive ViewAI

Why It Matters

A critical vulnerability in Hitachi JP1/Base, a core IT operations management component, exposes unpatched systems to remote, unauthenticated attackers who could fully compromise the service's confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code exists yet, the vendor's highest severity rating and the product's role in infrastructure monitoring mean that any internet-facing or broadly accessible deployments represent an unacceptable organizational risk.

Business Impact: High
Compensating Controls

Apply vendor patch.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.5%
Top 56% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
Hitachi enterprise ops-management software, concentrated in Japanese market
Data Quality
4 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity CRITICAL
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.5%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
CRITICAL severity
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation· derived
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable· derived
Yes
Human Impact
High

Priority Score

50
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: +1
CVSS: +49
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions.

A heap overflow occurs when a program writes data beyond the bounds of a buffer allocated in the heap memory region.

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