Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Network-accessible API requires valid credentials (PR:L); impact is read-only access to alert instance data (C:L), with no integrity or availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (CNA).
CVSS VectorCISA-ADP
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Lifecycle Timeline
2Blast Radius
ecosystem impact- 1 maven packages depend on org.apache.dolphinscheduler:dolphinscheduler-api (1 direct, 0 indirect)
Ecosystem-wide dependent count for version 3.4.2.
Description PRE-NVD
Articles & Coverage 1
AnalysisAI
Incorrect authorization in Apache DolphinScheduler before 3.4.2 allows authenticated users to read alert instances belonging to alert groups outside their assigned permissions. The API component (org.apache.dolphinscheduler:dolphinscheduler-api) fails to enforce permission boundaries between alert groups and their associated alert instances, constituting a broken access control flaw. No public exploit code or active exploitation (CISA KEV) has been identified at time of analysis, and the moderate severity rating reflects the authentication prerequisite and limited confidentiality impact.
Technical ContextAI
Apache DolphinScheduler is an open-source distributed workflow scheduling and orchestration platform, primarily consumed as a set of Maven artifacts under the org.apache.dolphinscheduler groupId. The vulnerable component is the API server module (dolphinscheduler-api), which manages resource-level access control across workflow entities including alert groups and their associated alert instances. The root cause is an authorization enforcement gap - consistent with CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization) - where server-side permission checks on alert instance retrieval endpoints do not validate that the requesting user holds the correct permission for the owning alert group. No CWE was formally assigned in the source data; CWE-863 is inferred from the description. The affected CPE is org.apache.dolphinscheduler:dolphinscheduler-api prior to version 3.4.2.
RemediationAI
The primary fix is to upgrade Apache DolphinScheduler to version 3.4.2 or later, as confirmed by the Apache project advisory at https://dolphinscheduler.apache.org and the oss-security disclosure. This is a vendor-released patch: version 3.4.2. If an immediate upgrade is not feasible, organizations should apply the principle of least privilege by auditing and tightening alert group memberships - ensuring only operationally necessary accounts are granted any alert group permissions, thereby reducing the set of users who could exploit the authorization bypass. Additionally, reviewing API access logs for unexpected queries against alert instance endpoints may reveal prior exploitation attempts. No other specific workarounds were identified in the source data; compensating controls are secondary to patching.
Same weakness CWE-200 – Information Exposure
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EUVD-2026-37584