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CVE record · CVE-2026-8170

ExtremeXOS Privilege Escalation via Symlink Following in File Utilities

CVSS 8.7 HighEPSS 0.0056 · 47th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: ExtremeNetworks) at 20 Jul 2026, 17:34 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Extreme Networks Switch Engine (EXOS)
  • affected before 31.7.4 custom
  • affected 32.0.0 to before 32.7.4.15 custom
  • affected 33.0.0 to before 33.1.100 custom
  • affected 33.2.0 to before 33.7.1 custom
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-8170
CNA
ExtremeNetworks
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-59
Tags
Published
20 Jul 2026
Updated
20 Jul 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.7 High 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CNA (ExtremeNetworks)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0056, the 47th percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 20 Jul 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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