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Cloudreve CVE-2026-55502

| EUVDEUVD-2026-51394 HIGH
Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863)
2026-07-24 https://github.com/cloudreve/cloudreve GHSA-hq88-5x99-x3gf
7.1
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: https://github.com/cloudreve/cloudreve
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Vendor (https://github.com/cloudreve/cloudreve) PRIMARY
7.1 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
vuln.today AI
7.1 HIGH

Authenticated attacker with read-only token can remotely overwrite storage credentials, causing integrity loss and limited availability impact.

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

Primary rating from Vendor (https://github.com/cloudreve/cloudreve).

CVSS VectorVendor: https://github.com/cloudreve/cloudreve

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

Lifecycle Timeline

3
Source Code Evidence Fetched
Jul 26, 2026 - 11:39 vuln.today
Analysis Generated
Jul 26, 2026 - 11:39 vuln.today
CVE Published
Jul 24, 2026 - 20:49 github-advisory
HIGH 7.1

DescriptionCVE.org

Summary

Cloudreve 4.16.1 has an OAuth scope authorization bypass in the admin storage policy routes. An OAuth bearer token scoped to Admin.Read but not Admin.Write can call POST /api/v4/admin/policy/oauth/signin and update OneDrive storage policy credentials.

The route is inside the admin group that requires Admin.Read, but it does not add the local Admin.Write guard used by sibling policy mutation routes. Its handler persists attacker-supplied secret and app_id values into the selected OneDrive storage policy before returning an OAuth URL.

Impact

An OAuth application that was granted only read-only admin scope can modify persistent storage backend configuration for a OneDrive policy. This can break the storage backend, replace the stored application secret and app ID, and redirect future OAuth setup for that policy to attacker-controlled application parameters. The attack crosses the intended OAuth scope boundary because Admin.Write is required for sibling storage policy mutation routes.

Reproduction

Preconditions:

  1. The instance has a OneDrive storage policy.
  2. An admin user authorizes an OAuth client for Admin.Read but not Admin.Write.
  3. The OAuth client obtains a bearer access token for that admin user.

Send the following request with that read-only admin scoped token:

http
POST /api/v4/admin/policy/oauth/signin HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer <admin OAuth token scoped to Admin.Read only>
Content-Type: application/json

{"id":1,"secret":"attacker-secret","app_id":"attacker-app-id"}

Expected secure result: the request is rejected with an insufficient-scope error because it changes storage policy credentials.

Actual result: the request reaches AdminOdOAuthURL, and GetOauthRedirectService.GetOAuth() persists the supplied values to the storage policy.

Root cause

routers/router.go applies RequiredScopes(types.ScopeAdminRead) to the authenticated admin route group. Sibling policy mutation routes add local RequiredScopes(types.ScopeAdminWrite) guards, for example policy create, policy update, CORS creation, OAuth callback, and policy delete.

The OneDrive OAuth signin route is missing that local write-scope guard:

go
oauth.POST("signin",
    controllers.FromJSON[adminsvc.GetOauthRedirectService](adminsvc.GetOauthRedirectParamCtx{}),
    controllers.AdminOdOAuthURL,
)

The handler performs a persistent write in service/admin/policy.go:

go
policy.Settings.OauthRedirect = routes.MasterPolicyOAuthCallback(dep.SettingProvider().SiteURL(c)).String()
policy.SecretKey = service.Secret
policy.BucketName = service.AppID
policy, err = storagePolicyClient.Upsert(c, policy)

The request fields secret and app_id come directly from the caller.

PoC evidence

A focused scope test confirmed that a request context with only Admin.Read fails CheckScope(c, types.ScopeAdminWrite), while Admin.Write implies Admin.Read. Therefore write routes must add RequiredScopes(types.ScopeAdminWrite) explicitly. The vulnerable route does not do so, and the handler writes the policy fields shown above.

Remediation

Add middleware.RequiredScopes(types.ScopeAdminWrite) to oauth.POST("signin", ...) before the JSON handler. Consider auditing other admin test routes that perform outbound network or mail actions under only Admin.Read, but this persistent credential update should be fixed first.

AnalysisAI

Cloudreve versions earlier than 4.17.0 contain an incorrect authorization flaw in the OAuth scoping of admin storage policy routes. An attacker with a bearer token scoped only to Admin.Read can send a request to the vulnerable endpoint and overwrite OneDrive storage policy credentials, violating the intended scope boundary. A publicly available proof-of-concept exists, and the vendor has released a patched version.

Technical ContextAI

The vulnerability resides in the Go-based Cloudreve web application, specifically in the Gin router and admin OAuth policy handlers. The root cause is a missing RequiredScopes(ScopeAdminWrite) middleware guard on the POST /api/v4/admin/policy/oauth/signin route, while the router group itself only enforces ScopeAdminRead. This allows an OAuth bearer token with insufficient privileges to invoke a handler that persists attacker-controlled secret and app_id values into a OneDrive storage policy object. The weakness is classified as CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization). Affected packages identified via CPE include pkg:go/github.com_cloudreve_cloudreve_v4 (v4.x) and pkg:go/github.com_cloudreve_cloudreve_v3 (v3.x).

RemediationAI

Upgrade Cloudreve to version 4.17.0, where the missing RequiredScopes(ScopeAdminWrite) middleware has been added to the oauth.POST("signin", ...) route. For v3 installations, no official patch is planned; consider migrating to v4.17.0 or later. As a temporary workaround, restrict OAuth applications from being granted Admin.Read scope unless absolutely necessary, and audit existing OAuth authorizations to remove unnecessary read-only admin access to reduce the risk of token abuse until the upgrade can be applied.

Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Important
Product Status
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1 Affected

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