Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate as low-privilege user
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DeliverySend crafted POST/PUT to /sys/category/edit
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ExploitBypass missing authorization check
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ExecutionRename/recode system-wide sys_category node
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ImpactCorrupt classification values across forms
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization checks on every request
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires a valid authenticated session as any application user, even low-privileged (CVSS PR:L), on a JeecgBoot instance at or below version 3.9.5. The attacker must know or enumerate a target sys_category node id to supply in the POST or PUT body to /sys/category/edit. No user interaction (UI:N) and no special non-default configuration are required - the SysCategoryController edit handler lacks an authorization check by default. The principal limiting factor is the authentication requirement: unauthenticated external attackers cannot exploit this directly. Impact is confined to integrity of shared classification data; there is no direct confidentiality or availability effect. |
| Impact | This is a genuine but moderate-severity issue, not a high-impact priority. The vendor-assigned CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N) scores 5.3 (medium), and the impact profile is narrow: integrity-only (VI:L), with no confidentiality (VC:N) or availability (VA:N) impact. Crucially, PR:L means exploitation requires an existing authenticated account, which substantially lowers real-world risk versus an unauthenticated flaw. Publicly available exploit code exists (VulnCheck advisory plus a GitHub PoC), raising practical exploitability, but this is NOT the same as active exploitation - the CVE is not listed in CISA KEV and no EPSS score is provided in the input, so widespread opportunistic exploitation cannot be inferred. The signals are internally consistent: a low-complexity, network-reachable, authenticated authorization gap (CWE-862) with a working PoC but limited blast radius. The dominant mitigating factor is the authentication requirement combined with integrity-only impact; the dominant aggravating factor is that the altered sys_category nodes are system-wide, so a single low-privileged user can affect classification values used across many forms. No SSVC decision data was provided in the input. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A low-privileged but authenticated user of a JeecgBoot deployment sends a crafted POST or PUT request to /sys/category/edit supplying the id of a system-wide sys_category node. Because SysCategoryController does not enforce authorization on the edit operation, the request succeeds and renames, recodes, or relocates the shared classification node, corrupting dictionary values relied upon across multiple forms. A public Python PoC (poc_c082_category_edit.py) demonstrates the request, and the network vector with low attack complexity makes the request trivial to reproduce once a valid session exists. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 10, 2026
Missing authorization in JeecgBoot's SysCategoryController (through version 3.9.5) lets any authenticated user, including a low-privileged one, rename, recode, or move system-wide sys_category dictionary nodes by sending POST or PUT requests with a node id to /sys/category/edit, corrupting classification values that are consumed across forms and other application features. Publicly available exploit code exists and the issue is tracked by VulnCheck, but no evidence of confirmed active exploitation (CISA KEV) was provided. With PR:L in both the vendor CVSS 4.0 vector (5.3) and the independent CVSS 3.1 assessment, impact is confined to integrity of shared reference data - no confidentiality or availability effect - and the need for a valid session plus a known or enumerable node id keeps this a moderate-priority issue rather than a high-impact one.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch was identified in the available data; the GitHub reference cited in the CVE record points to the vulnerable handler in SysCategoryController.java rather than a fix commit, and no patched version number is published, so confirmation that 3.9.6 or a later release resolves the issue must be obtained from the JeecgBoot project and from VulnCheck's advisory (https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/jeecgboot-through-3.9.5-missing-authorization-via-sys-category-edit) before treating an upgrade as the fix. In the interim, the most direct control is to add the missing authorization check to the /sys/category edit handler (for example, a permission annotation such as @RequiresPermissions("system:category:edit") consistent with other administrative controllers) - the trade-off is that this is a custom source patch that must be reapplied on every upgrade and can break unsupported forks. Where code changes are not feasible, block or restrict POST/PUT traffic to /sys/category/edit and the wider /sys/category/* administrative path at the reverse proxy, WAF, or gateway so that only administrator roles or trusted management networks can reach it; this stops the tampering but disables legitimate dictionary self-service for other users, and path-based rules can be bypassed if alternate routes or direct backend ports are reachable. Additional compensating measures: tightly control account provisioning and disable public self-registration so untrusted low-privileged sessions cannot be created, monitor sys_category rows for unexpected rename/recode/parent-id changes and alert on non-administrative actors performing them (the reference PoC at https://github.com/AnkesKasty/cve-request-poc/blob/a7b6d1423555812d8efa26c91c5d0683164b31e5/JeecgBoot/poc_c082_category_edit.py can be used to validate both exposure and detection), and treat any confirmed corruption as a data-integrity incident requiring restoration of the affected dictionary nodes from a trusted backup. None of these measures close the underlying missing-authorization defect, so a vendor fix should be adopted as soon as one is available.
Affected VersionsENISA
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
JeecgBoot is a Spring Boot / MyBatis-Plus low-code development platform whose sys_category dictionary nodes provide the shared classification values (names, codes, parent ids) used by forms and reference data throughout an instance. The root cause is CWE-862 (Missing Authorization): the edit handler in SysCategoryController.java (referenced at lines 147-158 of the upstream source on the tagged commit cited in the CVE record) fails to enforce the permission check that normally gates category administration, so the endpoint's only real preconditions are a valid session cookie/token and a target node id supplied in the request body. The independent assessment - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - and the vendor's CVSS 4.0 vector (VC:N/VI:L/VA:N, SC:N/SI:N/SA:N, AT:N, UI:N, PR:L) agree that this is an unauthenticated-network, authenticated-privilege, no-interaction tampering bug whose blast radius is limited to the integrity of classification data on the affected instance, with no cross-scope effect and no special non-default configuration required.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Network-reachable endpoint with low complexity but requires an authenticated account (PR:L); only integrity of shared dictionary data is affected (I:L), with no confidentiality or availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (VulnCheck).
CVSS VectorVendor: VulnCheck
DescriptionCVE.org
JeecgBoot through 3.9.5 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in SysCategoryController that allows any authenticated user to edit category dictionary nodes via /sys/category/edit. Low-privileged attackers can send POST or PUT requests supplying a node id to rename, recode, or move system-wide sys_category nodes, altering classification values used across forms.
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
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EUVD-2026-96584
GHSA-j396-6r6w-vfhc
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
Exploit-DB