OS command injection in Brocade Fabric OS time zone management
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Adjacent network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-78.
Summary
Brocade Fabric OS versions before 9.2.2d and 10.0.0 through 10.0.0a1 contain an OS command injection flaw (CWE-78) in the time and zone management subsystem. Input for system timezone settings is not sanitized before it reaches shell execution routines in the REST API or configuration download routines. An authenticated user with low-privilege administrative access can submit a crafted timezone string with shell metacharacters to run arbitrary shell commands with elevated privileges.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-29
Description from the CNA
An OS command injection vulnerability exists in the time and zone management subsystem of Brocade Fabric OS versions before 9.2.2d and 10.0.0 through 10.0.0a1. When updating system timezone settings via the REST API or configuration download routines, the system fails to sanitize input values before processing them in underlying shell execution routines. An authenticated user with low-privilege administrative access can exploit this vulnerability by submitting a crafted timezone string containing shell metacharacters. Successful exploitation allows the attacker to escape the restricted management environment and execute arbitrary shell commands with elevated privileges.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
Upgrade Brocade Fabric OS to 9.2.2d. The sources list no fixed version for Fabric OS 10.0.0 through 10.0.0a1.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-29
- Fix · CNA Fabric OS (Brocade) Fixed in 9.2.2d
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
Brocade Fabric OS 9.2.2d
21 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 3 MEDIUM, 18 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-69483 Command injection in Brocade Fabric OS WebTools interfacePriority MEDIUM 42
- TI-2026-69481 OS command injection in Brocade Fabric OS REST API interfacePriority MEDIUM 42
- TI-2026-69462 Session context forgery in Brocade Fabric OS web management daemonPriority LOW 38
Timeline
- 2026-10-08 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-87666
- 2026-10-08 Alias added: GHSA-4378-8w2h-3mmx
- 2026-10-08 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-10-08 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
- 2026-10-09 Priority changed: LOW → MEDIUM
- 2026-10-09 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-10-15 CVSS score added · NVD
References
More Brocade vulnerabilities
- TI-2025-01721 Code injection exposure in Fabric OS 9.1.0 through 9.1.1d6 KEVCVSS 4.0HIGH 8.6
- TI-2016-06760 Path traversal in Brocade Network Advisor versions released prior to and including 14.0.2 CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2024-19729 hard-coded credentials in the documentation that appear as the appliance root password CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2016-06762 Path traversal in Brocade Network Advisor versions released prior to and including 14.0.2 CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
- TI-2018-04739 OS command injection in Brocade Network Advisor CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2016-06761 Path traversal in Brocade Network Advisor versions released prior to and including 14.0.2 CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
Sources
- CVE-2026-87666 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-87666 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-4378-8w2h-3mmx · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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