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Apache OFBiz CVE-2026-114233

| EUVDEUVD-2026-117517 HIGH
Incorrect Privilege Assignment (CWE-266)
8.1
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Authenticate with ORDERMGR_VIEW account
  2. Delivery
    Call updateShipGroupShipInfo/appendOrderItem service
  3. Exploit
    Bypass missing ORDERMGR_UPDATE check
  4. Execution
    Modify approved order shipping/items/price
  5. Impact
    Fraudulent diversion or underpriced fulfillment

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Privilege assignment review
Exploitation Conditions

Requires an authenticated Order Manager user who holds the ORDERMGR_VIEW permission but lacks ORDERMGR_UPDATE and has no role on the target order; the attacker invokes the updateShipGroupShipInfo and appendOrderItem services against an already-approved order. Limiting factors: a valid OFBiz account with at least order-view access is mandatory (PR:L, not anonymous), and exploitation is confined to the Order Manager component on Apache OFBiz 24.09 through 24.09.07 - default installations are vulnerable but only to users who can already reach the order services. No user interaction and no elevated admin privilege are needed.

Impact

The signals point to a moderate, prioritizable-but-not-emergency issue rather than a top-tier crisis. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N) describes a network-reachable, low-complexity flaw requiring only authenticated low privilege - specifically a user holding ORDERMGR_VIEW - which is realistic in multi-user commerce deployments. However, EPSS is very low at 0.18% (8th percentile), there is no CISA KEV listing, and no public exploit was identified in the provided references (which are vendor/oss-security advisories, not PoC code), indicating no evidence of active or widespread exploitation. The vuln.today decision label is 'this_week', consistent with a patch-available integrity flaw that deserves prompt but not emergency remediation. One notable tension: the input CVSS reports C:H and I:H and the tags include 'Information Disclosure', yet the description is almost entirely about unauthorized modification of approved orders (changing ship addresses, shipment methods, and appending items at overridden prices) - the real-world impact is integrity/fraud, not data disclosure, so the confidentiality rating appears overstated relative to the described mechanism. Net: a genuine privilege-boundary weakness exploitable by any semi-trusted back-office user, worth patching this cycle, but not a mass-exploitation threat.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

A back-office user provisioned with only order-view rights (ORDERMGR_VIEW) and no update permission or role on a given order calls the updateShipGroupShipInfo or appendOrderItem services directly to alter an already-approved order - redirecting a shipment to an attacker-controlled address or adding items at a self-chosen price for fraud. Because the attack vector is network with low complexity and only low privilege is required, no user interaction or special timing is needed. No public exploit code was identified at time of analysis.

This Week Schedule remediation this week. Why: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9).
Patch available 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv2 – Nov 10, 2026

Incorrect privilege assignment in the Apache OFBiz Order Manager allows an authenticated user who holds only the ORDERMGR_VIEW permission - without ORDERMGR_UPDATE and without any role on the target order - to modify already-approved orders through the updateShipGroupShipInfo and appendOrderItem services, changing a ship group's shipping address and shipment method or appending items at an overridden price. The flaw affects Apache OFBiz 24.09 through 24.09.07 on all platforms and is fixed in 24.09.08; the assessed impact is integrity-only (no confidentiality or availability effect) against a low-privileged but authenticated account. Exploitation requires a valid OFBiz account with at least order-view access reaching the Order Manager, and the available sources record no public exploit identified at time of analysis, no CISA KEV listing, and a low EPSS of 0.18% (8th percentile), which places it in the 'this_week' rather than emergency handling band.

Earlier versions of this analysis (1)
v1 Nov 04, 2026 - 17:20

Incorrect privilege assignment in the Apache OFBiz Order Manager allows an authenticated, low-privileged user to modify orders that are already in an approved state, undermining the approval control the business workflow relies on. All OFBiz releases prior to 24.09.08 are affected, and the issue was published as one of roughly forty CVEs in a single oss-security batch; the assessed vector rates integrity impact High with no confidentiality or availability impact, and the actor must hold some legitimate order-related access that should not extend to approved orders. No public exploit code was identified at time of analysis, the flaw is not in CISA KEV, and the exact vulnerable service or endpoint and the precise required role are not described in the available sources.

RemediationAI

Vendor-released patch: Apache OFBiz 24.09.08. Upgrade every 24.09.x deployment to 24.09.08, which corrects the privilege assignment in the Order Manager so that updateShipGroupShipInfo and appendOrderItem require update-level authorization rather than accepting ORDERMGR_VIEW alone. The advisory does not describe a code-level workaround or configuration toggle, and upgrading is the stated fix; as an interim exposure reduction measure, audit and trim grants of the ORDERMGR_VIEW permission to only accounts that genuinely need order visibility, since the flaw is reachable only by users holding that permission - with the trade-off that legitimate order-review and fulfillment staff lose read access to order data until the upgrade is applied. Patch availability is confirmed by the vendor, so no dependency on third-party or unverified upstream commits is involved. References: https://ofbiz.apache.org/, https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q4/516, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7b2syzksp7klt9fvhdg0olldvs2g83lz.

Affected VersionsENISA

Apache OFBiz 0 <24.09.08

Affected Packages

euvd apache_ofbiz fix: 24.09.08

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

Apache OFBiz is an open-source enterprise resource planning and e-commerce framework whose Order Manager component exposes business services such as updateShipGroupShipInfo and appendOrderItem that mutate order, ship-group and line-item records. The weakness is classified as CWE-266 (Incorrect Privilege Assignment): the service-layer authorization logic accepts a caller holding ORDERMGR_VIEW and does not enforce the update-level permission (ORDERMGR_UPDATE) or any order-scoped role before committing changes to an already-approved order. Because OFBiz services are reachable over the network by any authenticated account with order-view access, and because no user interaction or administrative privilege is required, the assessed vector is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - high integrity impact from unauthorized modification of fulfillment data (destination address, shipment method, appended items with overridden pricing), with confidentiality and availability unaffected. Note that the public description's score of 8.1 reflects a confidentiality component that the independent assessment does not support; the authoritative assessment is integrity-only. No CPE identifiers were supplied; the affected range per EUVD is Apache OFBiz 0 through versions earlier than 24.09.08. The exact triggering path at the code level (which service entry point is invoked first, and how approval state is checked) is not described in the available sources.

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Severity by source

Vendor (CNA) PRIMARY 8.1 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
vuln.today AI 6.5 MEDIUM

Requires an authenticated low-privilege ORDERMGR_VIEW user (PR:L), network services with no special conditions (AV:N/AC:L); impact is unauthorized order modification (I:H) with no confidentiality or availability effect.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (CNA).

CVSS VectorVendor

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

4
Analysis Updated
Nov 10, 2026 - 17:37 vuln.today
v2 - CVSS changed
CVSS changed
Nov 10, 2026 - 17:22 NVD
8.1 (HIGH)
Patch available
Nov 05, 2026 - 15:17 EUVD
CVE Published
Nov 04, 2026 - 16:33 oss-security
CRITICAL

Description PRE-NVD

Disclosed via oss-security. NVD scoring and full description are pending.

Executive ViewAI

Why It Matters

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Apache OFBiz's Order Manager (CVE-2026-114233, CVSS 8.1) allows authenticated users with only order-view permissions to modify approved orders-changing shipping details or appending items at overridden prices-without proper authorization. This integrity flaw affects all organizations running OFBiz 24.09 through 24.09.07, potentially enabling unauthorized order alterations that could disrupt fulfillment, financial accuracy, and customer trust. Leadership should prioritize patching due to the high severity and the low-privilege nature of the attack vector.

Business Impact: High
Compensating Controls

Apply vendor patch.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 92% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
niche open-source ERP/e-commerce suite, limited enterprise production footprint
Data Quality
4 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity HIGH
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation· derived
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable· derived
No
Human Impact
High

Priority Score

40
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +40
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.

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