Defused Says Attackers Are Exploiting ServiceNow CVE-2026-6875

Summary
Defused reports in-the-wild exploitation of ServiceNow CVE-2026-6875, a pre-authentication sandbox-escape RCE. ServiceNow says it is not currently aware of exploitation and urges customers to upgrade to patched releases.
Key points
- CVE-2026-6875 reportedly allows unauthenticated attackers to escape the ServiceNow AI Platform sandbox and execute code remotely.
- Defused says it observed exploitation beginning after ServiceNow issued patches on July 13.
- Defused says the attacks reach the same pre-authentication sink described by Searchlight Cyber but use a different route to achieve code execution than the published proof of concept.
- ServiceNow says it is not currently aware of exploitation against its instances, while advising customers to upgrade to patched releases.
- ServiceNow patched hosted instances and released updates for self-hosted deployments.
Article Details
- Vulnerability Types
- Pre-authentication sandbox escape enabling remote code execution
- Severity
- Critical
- Exploitation Status
- active
- Exploit Availability
- public_poc
- Patch Status
- available
- Workarounds
- Upgrade to a patched release.
