CVE-2026-58251

NATS Server is a high-performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system. Prior to 2.14.0, 2.12.7, and 2.11.16, an authenticated user with subscription deny permissions could bypass a plain subject deny rule by using a queue subscription, because queue-specific deny evaluation could override the plain subject deny result when the queue name itself was not denied. This issue is fixed in versions 2.14.0, 2.12.7, and 2.11.16.

CVSS 3.1

6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS

0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 39% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-285

Published

2026-07-08

Modified

2026-10-25

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-25

Affected

• linuxfoundation:nats-server

References

• https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/commit/013586288078def45a6788096924eb4d150db65c
• https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/commit/79c2f6e9ff87f594596337b6427dda85c38d1fe1
• https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/commit/b9ffb63b85e7db3d25a13b2e234f5f7f7c13164d
• https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/releases/tag/v2.11.16
• https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/releases/tag/v2.12.7

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