Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-12269 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-12269 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-12269?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 8.8, published 28 September 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Zohocorp ManageEngine DDI Central 6.2.0 build 6200 and below.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-12269?
- A patch was published on 2026-06-18. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
- How is CVE-2026-12269 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-12269?
- Check whether you run Zohocorp ManageEngine DDI Central at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The vulnerability is a configuration injection flaw in the HA workflow that fails to validate and sanitize Keepalived configuration parameters before writing them to the configuration file. An authenticated user with operator-level privileges can inject arbitrary Keepalived configuration directives, leading to remote code execution as root. The vulnerability affects DDI Central 6.2.0 build 6200 and below; it was patched in build 6201 by implementing input validation and restricting access to administrator-level users.
Affected products
- Zohocorp ManageEngine DDI Central 6.2.0 build 6200 and below
Timeline
- 2026-09-28: disclosed
- 2026-06-18: patched