CVE-2026-49268

Q: How do I fix CVE-2026-49268?

Upgrade shiro to 2.2.1 or later.

Q: Is CVE-2026-49268 being actively exploited?

Not that we know of. CVE-2026-49268 is not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Its EPSS score of 0.49% is the estimated probability that it will be exploited in the next 30 days. That is higher than 40% of all scored CVEs.

Q: How severe is CVE-2026-49268?

CVE-2026-49268 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.1, rated critical. CVSS rates the technical impact if the vulnerability is exploited, not how likely that is, so weigh it alongside the exploit-prediction score when you decide what to patch first.

Q: What does CVE-2026-49268 affect?

Published advisories record a fix for shiro (NVD). Only products with a sourced advisory are listed, so treat this as what we can cite rather than a complete inventory.

CRITICAL

9.1

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

A remote attacker can inject LDAP special characters into the Distinguished Name (DN) construction in DefaultLdapRealm class. User-supplied username input is directly concatenated into the LDAP DN template without any escaping of RFC 2253 special characters. This allows an attacker to manipulate the DN structure used for LDAP bind authentication, potentially bypassing authentication or impersonating other users. This issue affects all Apache Shiro versions through 2.2.0, and 3.0.0-alpha-1 when using DefaultLdapRealm Upgrade to Apache Shiro 2.2.1 or 3.0.0-alpha-2 or later, which fixes the issue.

CWE-90

How to fix

Remediation Available

shiroNVD

Affected:< 2.2.1Fixed in:2.2.1CVE-2026-49268derived from NVD

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Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityNone

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Exploit Intelligence

0.49%probability of exploitation in 30 days

40thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 40% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory1

lists.apache.org

Third-Party Advisory1

openwall.com

Related Vulnerabilities

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CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2016-9299	Critical	9.8	97%	-	-
CVE-2017-14596	Critical	9.8	6.9%	-	-
CVE-2016-8750	Medium	6.5	5.2%	-	Fix
CVE-2021-43350	Critical	9.8	4.4%	-	Fix
CVE-2017-4927	High	7.5	2.3%	-	Fix
CVE-2024-27310	Medium	5.3	2.3%	-	Fix

Common questions

How do I fix CVE-2026-49268?

Upgrade shiro to 2.2.1 or later.

Is CVE-2026-49268 being actively exploited?

Not that we know of. CVE-2026-49268 is not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Its EPSS score of 0.49% is the estimated probability that it will be exploited in the next 30 days. That is higher than 40% of all scored CVEs.

How severe is CVE-2026-49268?

CVE-2026-49268 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.1, rated critical. CVSS rates the technical impact if the vulnerability is exploited, not how likely that is, so weigh it alongside the exploit-prediction score when you decide what to patch first.

What does CVE-2026-49268 affect?

Published advisories record a fix for shiro (NVD). Only products with a sourced advisory are listed, so treat this as what we can cite rather than a complete inventory.

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-06-18.