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CVE-2026-76805: CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in projectdiscovery nuclei

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Medium
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-76805cvecve-2026-76805cwe-200
Published: 09/22/2026 (09/22/2026, 16:48:49 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: projectdiscovery
Product: nuclei

Description

Nuclei is a vulnerability scanner built on a simple YAML-based DSL. From 3.0.0 until 3.10.0, the DAST/fuzz payload path in pkg/fuzz/parts.go can evaluate substituted runtime data more than once, creating a second evaluation pass that allows response content captured by an internal: true extractor in one protocol step to be reinterpreted as template syntax in a later fuzz step. This vulnerability is an incomplete fix for CVE-2026-41645: the prior remediation made expressions.Evaluate() single-pass within one call but did not prevent DAST/fuzz callers from evaluating substituted output again. When -env-vars is enabled, a malicious scan target can return marker-shaped content that resolves against the template variable map and discloses scanner-host environment variables such as credentials, API keys, or tokens. The vulnerability requires a multi-step DAST or fuzz template, response data reused through an internal extractor, and explicit environment-variable expansion; users who do not enable -env-vars are not affected by the sensitive-information disclosure. This issue is fixed in version 3.10.0.

CVSS v3.1

Score 5.3medium

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected software

projectdiscovery

nuclei

Affected versions
>=3.0.0 <3.10.0

Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
GitHub_M
Date Reserved
2026-08-19T19:52:28.212Z
Cvss Version
3.1
State
PUBLISHED

Threat ID: 6ab2b4d6f7a7c54106794a50

Added to database: 09/22/2026, 17:03:18 UTC

Last updated: 09/22/2026, 17:03:18 UTC

Views: 1

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