CVE-2026-17603 — Nexus Repository 3 - HikariCP connectionInitSql Injection RCE via DataStore Configuration API
Nexus Repository 3 did not sufficiently restrict which HikariCP connection-pool properties could be set through the DataStore configuration API. A user holding the nx-datastores…
Published: 2026-08-07 · CVSS: 8.7 · CVSS 4.0
Nexus Repository 3 did not sufficiently restrict which HikariCP connection-pool properties could be set through the DataStore configuration API. A user holding the nx-datastores-update permission could set the connectionInitSql property to execute arbitrary SQL against the configured database on every new connection. On the default H2 database backend, this could be leveraged to achieve remote code execution as the Nexus process user.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7