MajorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-85954 (CVSS 8.6)

NVD · officialPublished Oct 12, 2026Risk 37/100

Progress MarkLogic Server 12.x releases before 12.1.0 and 11.x releases before 11.3.7 can evaluate user-controlled values supplied to certain higher-order XQuery functions in an elevated security context, which could result in privilege escalation beyond the attacker's granted permissions.

Technical details

CVSS

8.6

AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:NoneC:NoneI:HighA:None

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