CVE-2026-94577

Broadcom Fabric Operating System: privilege escalation

Risk score: 47/100
CVSS: 7.8 v3.1
Exploit chance (30 days): 0.1%
Published: 8 Oct 2026

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What to know

What it is: A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the internal Command-Line Interface (CLI) authorization handling mechanism of Brocade Fabric OS versions before 9.2.2d and 10.0.0 through 10.0.0a1. An authenticated user or local process that can manipulate the process execution environment can bypass Role-Based Access Co…
Affected: Broadcom Fabric Operating System before 9.2.2
Fix: Upgrade Broadcom Fabric Operating System to 9.2.2 or later.
Exploitation: No known exploitation

Story map

Story map: the flaws, the fix, how it unfolded and what it connects to. Boxes link to the record or article.

At a glance

Broadcom Fabric Operating System: Amber, patch this week. A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the SNMP daemon request handling of Brocade Fabric versions before 10.0.1. When processing an incoming SNMPv3 packet, an internal statistics gathering handler copies user-supplied context name data into a fixed-size buffer without properly validating the length of …

The flaws

CVE-2026-94577: Privilege escalation (CVSS 7.8 · EPSS 0%)
CVE-2026-87684: Stack buffer overflow can lead to remote code execution (CVSS 9.8 · EPSS 1%)
CVE-2026-87680: OS command injection (CVSS 8.8 · EPSS 2%)
CVE-2026-87682: OS command injection (CVSS 8.8 · EPSS 2%)

The fix

Upgrade Broadcom Fabric Operating System: 9.2.2 · 10.0.1 or later on your release line

Who is exposed: Broadcom Fabric Operating System before 10.0.1

Where it stands

No known exploitation

Connects to

Same weakness: CWE-15 (CWE-15). 8 other warnings in 30 days
Same product: Earlier Broadcom Fabric Operating System warnings. 39 in the last 90 days

Why it is Yellow

CVSS 7.8 high

References

https://support.broadcom.com/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/39154

Original description

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the internal Command-Line Interface (CLI) authorization handling mechanism of Brocade Fabric OS versions before 9.2.2d and 10.0.0 through 10.0.0a1. An authenticated user or local process that can manipulate the process execution environment can bypass Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) validation checks. Successful exploitation allows an attacker to elevate privileges to root

Last activity 8 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.