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CVE-2026-85479 json

Grid Protection Alliance openPDC and openHistorian Missing Authentication for Critical Function

published last mo. modified last mo. also EUVD-2026-95781

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 16%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The STTP-based data publisher on openPDC accepts network connections without authentication in its default configuration. An unauthenticated network attacker can connect to this interface and exchange data with it.

Patch / fix

  • Grid Protection Alliance openPDC 2.9.477, 2.9.482
  • Grid Protection Alliance openPDC (Docker image) 2.9.477, 2.9.482
  • Grid Protection Alliance openHistorian 2.8.580, 2.8.585

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cisa ICSA-26-281-02 updated cvss 5.3

Grid Protection Alliance openPDC and openHistorian

  • Grid Protection Alliance openHistorian <2.8.585 Grid Protection Alliance openPDC <2.9.482
    affected: vendor fix
  • Grid Protection Alliance openPDC (Docker image) <2.9.482
    affected: no fix planned “Grid Protection Alliance does not recommend production use of published Docker images in any case. The fix for this vulnerability has not been published to the Docker image.”

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last mo.

Exploit prediction

0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CNA 4.0 6.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 6.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

  • Grid Protection Alliance openPDC
  • Grid Protection Alliance openPDC (Docker image)
  • Grid Protection Alliance openHistorian

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality

References

Sources

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