N-able N-central Static Code Injection Vulnerability

N-able N-central

N-able N-central contains a static code injection vulnerability that could allow for pre-authentication remote code execution. Added to CISA KEV on 2026-09-08 (federal deadline 2026-09-11).

First seen: 8 Sept 2026
Last update: 8 Sept 2026, 12:00 UTC
Identifiers: CVE-2026-86218
Source: CISA KEV
On the menu as: Remote access

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## N-able N-central Static Code Injection Vulnerability
Severity: high, exploited in the wild. Patch status: patched.
Affected: N-able N-central
Ids: CVE-2026-86218

N-able N-central contains a static code injection vulnerability that could allow for pre-authentication remote code execution. Added to CISA KEV on 2026-09-08 (federal deadline 2026-09-11).

## Steps
1. This touches infrastructure (remote-support). Look in terraform, ansible, cloud-init, Dockerfiles and docs for the product and version we run. If it isn't in the repo, say so and list what a human should check on the box.

## Report
A table: file, product or package, version in use, affected yes/no, exact fix. Then anything a human has to check outside the repo.

If you have the pwned.coffee MCP server (https://pwned.coffee/mcp), call lookup_cve("CVE-2026-86218") for the latest, and check_repo with this repo's lockfiles, Dockerfiles and workflows for a full receipt.
Sources: https://me.n-able.com/s/security-advisory/aArVy0000002Ld3KAE/cve202686218-preauthentication-remote-code-execution https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-86218 https://status.n-able.com/2026/09/06/n-central-2026-3-hotfix-4-cve-2026-86218/
https://pwned.coffee/i/n-able-n-central-static-code-injection-vulnerability-cve-2026-86218

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