CVE-2026-2605 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Details

CVE-2026-2605
Vulnerability Scoring

5.3
/10
Significant Risk

Security assessments indicate that CVE-2026-2605 presents a notable risk, potentially requiring prompt mitigation.

Attack Complexity Details

  • Attack Complexity: High
    Exploits require significant effort and special conditions.
  • Attack Vector: Network
    Vulnerability is exploitable over a network without physical access.
  • Privileges Required: Low
    Some privileges are necessary to exploit the vulnerability.
  • Scope: Unchanged
    Exploit remains within the originally vulnerable component.
  • User Interaction: None
    No user interaction is necessary for exploitation.

CVE-2026-2605 Details

Status: Analyzed

Published on: 20 Feb 2026, 00:16 UTC

CVSS Release: version 3

CVSS3 Source

3938794e-25f5-4123-a1ba-5cbd7f104512

CVSS3 Type

Secondary

CVSS3 Vector

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

CVE-2026-2605 Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2026-2605: Tanium addressed an insertion of sensitive information into log file vulnerability in TanOS.

Assessing the Risk of CVE-2026-2605

Access Complexity Graph

The exploitability of CVE-2026-2605 depends on two key factors: attack complexity (the level of effort required to execute an exploit) and privileges required (the access level an attacker needs).

Exploitability Analysis for CVE-2026-2605

This vulnerability, CVE-2026-2605, requires a high level of attack complexity and low privileges, making it difficult but not impossible to exploit. Organizations should ensure robust security configurations to mitigate risks.

Understanding AC and PR

A lower complexity and fewer privilege requirements make exploitation easier. Security teams should evaluate these aspects to determine the urgency of mitigation strategies, such as patch management and access control policies.

Attack Complexity (AC) measures the difficulty in executing an exploit. A high AC means that specific conditions must be met, making an attack more challenging, while a low AC means the vulnerability can be exploited with minimal effort.

Privileges Required (PR) determine the level of system access necessary for an attack. Vulnerabilities requiring no privileges are more accessible to attackers, whereas high privilege requirements limit exploitation to authorized users with elevated access.

CVSS Score Breakdown Chart

Above is the CVSS Sub-score Breakdown for CVE-2026-2605, illustrating how Base, Impact, and Exploitability factors combine to form the overall severity rating. A higher sub-score typically indicates a more severe or easier-to-exploit vulnerability.

CIA Impact Analysis

Below is the Impact Analysis for CVE-2026-2605, showing how Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability might be affected if the vulnerability is exploited. Higher values usually signal greater potential damage.

  • Confidentiality: High
    Exploiting CVE-2026-2605 can result in unauthorized access to sensitive data, severely compromising data privacy.
  • Integrity: None
    CVE-2026-2605 poses no threat to data integrity.
  • Availability: None
    CVE-2026-2605 does not impact system availability.

CVE-2026-2605 References

External References

CWE Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-532

CAPEC Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification

  • Fuzzing for application mapping CAPEC-215 An attacker sends random, malformed, or otherwise unexpected messages to a target application and observes the application's log or error messages returned. The attacker does not initially know how a target will respond to individual messages but by attempting a large number of message variants they may find a variant that trigger's desired behavior. In this attack, the purpose of the fuzzing is to observe the application's log and error messages, although fuzzing a target can also sometimes cause the target to enter an unstable state, causing a crash.

Vulnerable Configurations

  • cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0149:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0149:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0157:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0157:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0163:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0163:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0178:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0178:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0179:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0179:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0188:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0188:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0190:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0190:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0199:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0199:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0205:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0205:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0228:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0228:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0229:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0229:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0235:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.4.0235:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.5.0212:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.5.0212:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.5.0215:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.5.0215:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.5.0227:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.5.0227:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.5.0236:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.5.0236:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.5.0258:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.5.0258:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.5.0262:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.5.0262:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.5.0268:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:tanium:tanos:1.8.5.0268:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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