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CVE-2026-18576 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in N-able N-central, the vendor’s remote monitoring and management platform. The issue is described as an authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel and affects N-central versions through 2026.1, with reporting indicating exposure across versions prior to 2026.3 before subsequent hotfixing. Successful exploitation allows an unauthenticated attacker to bypass normal authentication controls and hijack administrative accounts. The vendor initially issued a patch, but that remediation was later found to be incomplete, and attackers identified a new exploitation path related to the original flaw, which ultimately led to the separate tracking of CVE-2026-18577 as an incomplete-fix issue.
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A high-severity authentication bypass/account hijacking vulnerability in N-able N-central that allows unauthenticated attackers to hijack administrative accounts; it is actively exploited and required an emergency hotfix after an insufficient initial fix.
An earlier authentication bypass vulnerability in N-able N-central that affected versions through 2026.1; CVE-2026-18577 resulted from an incomplete patch for this flaw. It could also enable administrative account takeover.
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