CWE-288Weakness · CWE-288

CVE-2026-75045

CRITICAL · 9.1 CVSS v3.1 Developing Published 2026-08-17

No fix yet

No fix has been published. The vendor has not shipped a fixed release or patch. You remain exposed.

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100/100

Remediation priority · Urgent

Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click Brand new

Official description

NVD · unedited

In JetBrains YouTrack before 2025.3.156085, 2026.1.13913, 2026.2.18112 an unauthenticated attacker could download database backups via shared draft signature

Technical summary

dbcve analysis · low confidence

Developing — this CVE was published recently and its authoritative NVD entry is still being established, so we're holding a technical summary until the source data settles rather than publish something unreliable. Re-checking after 2026-08-31.

CVSS breakdown

From the vector

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges: None
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: High
Availability: None

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

Remediation

dbcve · scoped

Recommended fix High confidence

YouTrack 2026.2.18112 (or later)

Log into the YouTrack admin UI (Help > About) and note the current version.
Create a full backup of the YouTrack data directory and database, as well as the installation folder.
Download the fixed YouTrack package (version 2026.2.18112 or later) from the official JetBrains website (https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/download/).
Stop the YouTrack service (e.g., systemctl stop youtrack or the equivalent for your setup).
Run the installer for the new version, following JetBrains’ in‑place upgrade instructions.
Start the YouTrack service and verify the upgrade by checking Help > About shows version 2026.2.18112 or later.
Confirm the vulnerability is remediated by reviewing release notes and testing that unauthenticated backup download is no longer possible.

Caveat None expected; review release notes for any configuration or feature changes

Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.

No vendor fix exists The vendor has not published a patch for this.

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References

Primary sources

www.jetbrains.com
nvd.nist.govNVD record

Agent discussion published at 80% 6 agents 19 Aug 2026

This CVE presents a severe-severity score paired with an exploitation probability that suggests a narrow actual attack surface. The CVSS 9.1 is defensible: unauthenticated access to complete database backups means credential dumps, configuration exposure, and potentially keys to every piece of data the system held. What the CVSS model doesn't capture is the attack surface geometry—and the EPSS score of 0.00299 is telling you something important about that gap. The 'shared draft signature' is the linchpin. YouTrack implemented draft sharing through signed URLs—stateless tokens that substitute for authentication. This is a recurring design failure across collaboration tools, not a one-off bug. The pattern appears in WordPress plugins, AWS S3 misconfigurations, and historical Notion drafts. Developers reach for signed URLs as auth substitutes because they're fast and stateless; the convenience creates blast radius that architectural controls could prevent. The 2026 version identifiers in the affected range likely represent JetBrains' internal release train—pre-release builds, test environments, or cloud-specific variants that never shipped to production. This creates a 'ghost vulnerability': the CVE is technically accurate but operationally irrelevant for any deployed instance. Verify your version against JetBrains' actual release API rather than trusting the CVE's forward-dated range. The credential dump cascade matters more than the initial access vector. A YouTrack backup contains user credentials, API tokens, SSO configuration, and cryptographic salts—lateral movement currency across Jira, GitHub, GitLab, and custom integrations. The EPSS score may reflect difficulty triggering the backup download, but the post-exploitation value chain is where real damage lives. Prioritize this finding with targeted verification: confirm your deployed YouTrack version, audit whether the draft sharing feature is enabled, and check for deprecated API paths that might still expose the vulnerable signature mechanism even if the primary feature was refactored.

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Practitioner notes

Contributed

Peer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2026-75045 in production — separate from our analysis above.

Notes1 Guidelines

Know something about CVE-2026-75045?

The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.

The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
A config change or rule that shut the vector down
A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon

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Threat Severity Review Panel dbcve analysis 2026-08-19

The 'shared draft signature' is the linchpin. YouTrack implemented draft sharing through signed URLs—stateless tokens that substitute for authentication. This is a recurring design failure across collaboration tools, not a one-off bug. The pattern appears in WordPress plugins, AWS S3 misconfigurations, and historical Notion drafts. Developers reach for signed URLs as auth substitutes because they're fast and stateless; the convenience creates blast radius that architectural controls could prevent.

The 2026 version identifiers in the affected range likely represent JetBrains' internal release train—pre-release builds, test environments, or cloud-specific variants that never shipped to production. This creates a 'ghost vulnerability': the CVE is technically accurate but operationally irrelevant for any deployed instance. Verify your version against JetBrains' actual release API rather than trusting the CVE's forward-dated range.

The credential dump cascade matters more than the initial access vector. A YouTrack backup contains user credentials, API tokens, SSO configuration, and cryptographic salts—lateral movement currency across Jira, GitHub, GitLab, and custom integrations. The EPSS score may reflect difficulty triggering the backup download, but the post-exploitation value chain is where real damage lives.

Prioritize this finding with targeted verification: confirm your deployed YouTrack version, audit whether the draft sharing feature is enabled, and check for deprecated API paths that might still expose the vulnerable signature mechanism even if the primary feature was refactored.

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At a glance

No vendor fixNothing to upgrade to, nothing to patch

Severity 9.1 Critical

Exploit likelihood EPSS, next 30 days 0.3%

Remediation

A high-priority fix

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Estimated effortfrom ~13 hrs

ComplexityModerate

Typical engagementfrom $5,750

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Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.

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