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Zabbix Frontend EUVDEUVD-2026-92397

| CVE-2026-59785 MEDIUM
Observable Response Discrepancy (CWE-204)
2026-10-05 Zabbix GHSA-pr2j-9fvv-cqvq
5.1
CVSS 4.0 · Vendor: Zabbix
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Attack ChainAIDerived

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

  1. Access
    Authenticate with read-access Zabbix account
  2. Delivery
    Craft host search filtering on hidden IPMI/PSK field
  3. Exploit
    Submit guessed credential values
  4. Execution
    Observe result presence as match/no-match oracle
  5. Persist
    Reconstruct stored credential
  6. Impact
    Reuse IPMI/PSK secret for lateral access

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V6 - Authentication Response uniformity
Exploitation Conditions

Requires an authenticated Zabbix frontend account with read access to hosts (PR:L); exploitation is performed through the standard Host search feature by filtering on non-displayed credential fields (stored IPMI and PSK values). No user interaction with a victim is needed (UI:N). Limiting factors: the attacker must already be a valid, if low-privileged, Zabbix user; disclosure is indirect (a guess-confirmation oracle, not direct read), so recovering high-entropy PSK secrets is time-consuming and may be impractical, whereas short or weak IPMI passwords are realistically recoverable. Vendor vector marks the access as adjacent (AV:A), though the web-based frontend may in practice be reachable over the wider network.

Impact

This is a moderate-severity information-disclosure flaw (vendor CVSS 4.0 base 5.1) best characterized as an oracle/observable-discrepancy weakness (CWE-204): an authenticated low-privilege user (PR:L) can filter the host search on non-displayed fields - including stored IPMI and PSK credentials - and infer whether a guessed value is correct from the presence/absence of results. No EPSS score, CISA KEV listing, or public POC was provided, so there is no evidence of active exploitation or widespread automated attack interest; exploitation status is best treated as no public exploit identified at time of analysis. The practical risk is real but bounded: it requires an existing authenticated account with read access and is a guess-and-confirm channel rather than direct credential dump, so extracting a high-entropy PSK is slow and may be infeasible, while weak or short IPMI passwords are far more exposed. One notable signal conflict: the vendor vector uses AV:A (adjacent), but the Zabbix frontend is a web application typically reachable over the broader network, which would argue for AV:N - verify the intended access scope with the vendor, as it materially changes who can reach the endpoint. Overall this is a genuine but lower-priority hardening issue for most defenders - not a drop-everything critical - unless weak IPMI/PSK secrets are known to be in use.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

A user holding a low-privilege Zabbix account with read access to hosts repeatedly submits host-search queries that filter on the hidden IPMI or PSK credential field, varying the guessed value. By observing whether each query returns the host or no result, they confirm correct guesses character-by-character or value-by-value, ultimately reconstructing stored credentials they were never authorized to view. No public exploit code was provided, but the technique requires only the standard search UI and an authenticated session.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
No patch listed yet 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 05, 2026

The Host search feature in the Zabbix Frontend allows filtering on fields that are never displayed in search results, including stored IPMI credentials and PSK values, so an authenticated user with read access to hosts can submit a guessed secret and infer from whether results are returned whether the guess was correct. This is a guess-confirmation oracle rather than a direct credential readout: each request leaks only one bit of information, so short or weak IPMI passwords are realistically recoverable through repeated queries, while high-entropy PSK secrets may be impractical to brute-force. Successful abuse yields low-confidentiality impact and requires the attacker to already hold a valid low-privileged frontend account (PR:L, authenticated per the CVSS vectors); no public exploit code or confirmed active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis.

RemediationAI

No vendor-released patch or fixed version number is identified in the provided data, so the actionable step is to monitor and consume the vendor advisory ZBX-28195 at https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-28195 for the exact patched release and apply it as soon as it is published; do not assume any specific version number beyond what that ticket states. Until then, apply targeted compensating controls. First, review and minimize host read permissions: users only need host read access to exercise the oracle, so restrict host group and host read roles to personnel who genuinely require them, accepting the trade-off that operational visibility for lower-tier operators shrinks and help-desk workflows may need rework. Second, rotate stored IPMI credentials to long, high-entropy passwords so that the guess-confirmation oracle becomes computationally impractical, noting that this only mitigates the weak-password case and does nothing for high-entropy PSK brute-forcing caused by low-entropy PSKs themselves. Third, where IPMI monitoring is not essential, disable IPMI checks and remove stored IPMI credentials from items so there is nothing to enumerate, at the cost of losing out-of-band hardware health telemetry. Fourth, if feasible, restrict Frontend reachability to trusted management networks via ACLs or a reverse proxy, which reduces exposure from the vendor's adjacent (AV:A) framing to a controlled segment but complicates legitimate remote access. Finally, audit host-search request patterns for repetitive filter submissions that resemble credential guessing, since detection is otherwise limited.

Affected VersionsENISA

Zabbix 7.4.0 ≤7.4.12
Zabbix 7.0.0 ≤7.0.28
Zabbix 6.0.0 ≤6.0.47

Affected Packages

euvd zabbix no fix

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

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Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The root cause is CWE-204 (Observable Response Discrepancy). Zabbix's Host search applies the user-supplied filter to the underlying host data set, but the frontend only renders a limited set of fields in the results. Because the filter predicate is evaluated against columns that are not part of the displayed output - specifically stored IPMI connection credentials and PSK (pre-shared key) values used for encrypted agent communication - the presence or absence of a matching row constitutes a side channel that reveals whether the attacker's guessed value equals the stored secret. This is fundamentally an application-layer filtering/visibility mismatch rather than a memory-safety or injection bug. The vendor's CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N) scores 5.1 and classifies the access vector as adjacent, whereas our independent CVSS 3.1 assessment (AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N) treats the web frontend as network-reachable and the practical exploitation difficulty as high because the disclosure is indirect and iterative. The CPE string cpe:2.3:a:zabbix:zabbix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* carries a wildcard version, indicating the issue is tracked against the Zabbix product line generally with no version range bounded in the supplied intelligence.

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Severity by source

Vendor (Zabbix) PRIMARY 5.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
vuln.today AI 3.1 LOW

Web frontend is network-reachable (AV:N); authenticated read user (PR:L); AC:H because disclosure is an iterative guessing oracle; only partial confidentiality impact (C:L), no integrity/availability effect.

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

Primary rating from Vendor (Zabbix).

CVSS VectorVendor: Zabbix

Attack Vector
Adjacent
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
None
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Vulnerable system: Confidentiality
Low
Vulnerable system: Integrity
None
Vulnerable system: Availability
None
Subsequent system: Confidentiality
None
Subsequent system: Integrity
None
Subsequent system: Availability
None

DescriptionCVE.org

Host search in Frontend allows filtering by fields that are not displayed, including stored IPMI and PSK credentials. A user with read access can guess a credential and see from the search result whether the guess was right, letting them uncover it.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 96% exploitable
Prevalence
High
Zabbix is a widely deployed enterprise infrastructure-monitoring platform
Social Media
1
Sightings
Data Quality
5 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 MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
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
None
System Exposure· derived
Controlled
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
High
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

26
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +26
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

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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