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CVE-2026-77690Zohocorp ManageEngine Key Manager Plus OS command injection

High priorityHigh8.8EPSS 16%, higher than 97% of scored CVEs

CVE-2026-77690 is a OS command injection in Zohocorp ManageEngine Key Manager Plus, rated high (8.8 on CVSS 3.1).

Why this priority: EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 16%.

Published · Updated · NVD status: Awaiting Analysis

What it is

Input reaches an operating-system command line, letting an attacker run their own commands on the host.

How it is reached

An attacker can exploit it over the network, with an ordinary user account, and nobody has to click anything.

What an attacker gains

A successful attack can read the data it protects, change data or behaviour and take it offline. In practice, this kind of flaw lets an attacker run commands or code with the privileges of the affected service.

Is it being exploited?

There is no public report of exploitation yet. EPSS estimates a 16% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of scored CVEs.

What to do

  1. Upgrade Zohocorp ManageEngine Key Manager Plus to 7151 or later.
  2. Until it is patched, review who holds accounts that can reach it.

Description from NVD

ZohoCorp ManageEngine Key Manager Plus versions before 7151 were vulnerable to a Command Injection vulnerability that allowed authenticated users with certificate deployment privileges to execute arbitrary commands through specially crafted input when configuring a deployment target.

What this means for your architecture.

A CVE names a product. Whether it matters depends on where that product sits in your systems: what reaches it, which trust boundary it guards and what it can reach once compromised. Veriom maps your components, their relationships and your trust boundaries from your code, cloud and delivery evidence, so you can see where a component like this sits. The radar itself does not look at your systems.

Components it touches

  • Application servers and the hosts they run on. The flaw sits between untrusted input and code or command execution.
  • Template engines. The flaw sits between untrusted input and code or command execution.

Trust boundaries in play

  • Authenticated network access. An account is needed, so exposure follows who can sign in: customers, partners or staff.
  • Between untrusted input and code or command execution. An attacker who crosses it can run commands or code with the privileges of the affected service.

Questions to answer about your own systems

  • Where does Zohocorp ManageEngine Key Manager Plus run in your systems, and at which version?
  • Which of those instances can be reached from the internet or partner networks?
  • What can it reach once compromised: which data stores, secrets and services?

Sources

  • CVE records and CVSS scores from the NVD CVE API. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
  • Exploitation status from CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
  • Exploit likelihood from FIRST’s Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS), refreshed daily.
  • Explanations are written by Veriom from fixed templates over each record’s data, not by a person reviewing each CVE. Descriptions are quoted from the records as published.