Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate as low-privilege member
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ExploitInvoke others.changeLogo tRPC mutation
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ExecutionMissing MANAGE_SETTINGS check bypassed
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ImpactReplace and broadcast server logo to all clients
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 | The attacker must be an authenticated member of a Sharkord server running a version before 0.0.26; no MANAGE_SETTINGS (admin/settings) permission is required because the others.changeLogo tRPC route omits the authorization check present on other settings operations. The exploitation is limited to the integrity of the server logo - the mutation only replaces the logo image broadcast to clients, with no file-system, data-confidentiality, or availability impact. Limiting factors: a valid low-privilege account on the target instance is required (PR:L), so fully unauthenticated attackers and non-members cannot exploit it; affected default behavior is present in v0.0.25 and earlier with no special non-default configuration needed. |
| Impact | This is a genuine but low-severity authorization flaw (CWE-862), not a high-priority emergency. The provided CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N) and the CVSS 5.3 score agree that exploitation is network-reachable, low-complexity, and requires only low-privilege authentication (PR:L) with no user interaction - consistent with 'any authenticated member' in the description. The only impact is integrity-limited (VI:L); confidentiality and availability are explicitly rated None, matching the real-world effect (an unauthorized logo change broadcast to connected clients), so this is a defacement/integrity issue rather than a system-compromise vector. No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public exploit code were provided; the source-code commit diff and a test case are available, which disclose the fix but do not constitute a weaponized exploit. There is no signal (KEV/EPSS/POC) suggesting active or widespread exploitation, so this reads as a legitimately fixed low-risk authorization bug rather than an urgent threat. Note: the input Tag 'Authentication Bypass' conflicts with the CWE-862 (missing authorization) classification and the description - this is missing authorization for an already-authenticated user, not an authentication bypass. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An authenticated low-privilege member of a Sharkord server (one without the MANAGE_SETTINGS permission) directly invokes the others.changeLogo tRPC mutation, which in v0.0.25 and earlier omits the permission check. The attacker removes the owner's logo and uploads a replacement image that is then published to every connected client, defacing the server for all members. No public exploit code was identified at time of analysis, though the patch commit and a regression test disclosing the vulnerable route are publicly available. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 20, 2026
Sharkord before 0.0.26 allows any authenticated server member to replace or remove the server logo without MANAGE_SETTINGS permission because the others.changeLogo tRPC mutation omits its permission check. The impact is limited to integrity of a server setting: the changed logo is published to every connected client, but there is no confidentiality or availability impact and the attacker must already hold a valid low-privilege account. No public exploit code was identified at time of analysis, and a vendor-released fix is available in Sharkord 0.0.26.
RemediationAI
Upgrade to Sharkord 0.0.26 or later; the vendor-released patch version 0.0.26 contains commit fd15061eaf366c7150325780a2d7b4b452f1134f and the fix release is at https://github.com/Sharkord/sharkord/releases/tag/v0.0.26. Review the VulnCheck advisory and GitHub issues #387/#851 for vendor details. If immediate upgrade is not possible, restrict server membership and invitations to trusted users and monitor/restore unauthorized logo changes, understanding that this only reduces exposure because the missing MANAGE_SETTINGS check remains; another compensating control is to block or restrict the others.changeLogo tRPC route at a reverse proxy, but that can break legitimate logo updates from administrators and is not a substitute for patching.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Sharkord is a self-hosted collaboration/chat server whose server API is built on tRPC. The vulnerable mutation in apps/server/src/routers/others/change-logo.ts uses protectedProcedure, which confirms the caller is authenticated, but it does not invoke ctx.needsPermission(Permission.MANAGE_SETTINGS) before accepting a temp file ID and updating the logo. This is CWE-862 (missing authorization): the route enforces authentication but not the role/permission required for a settings-changing action. The upstream commit fd15061 adds the Permission import and the needsPermission call and adds a regression test showing a second non-admin user is rejected with 'Insufficient permissions' while the original logo remains. CPE cpe:2.3:a:sharkord:sharkord:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* covers the affected pre-0.0.26 product line; CVSS PR:L reflects that a valid member account is required, and there is no confidentiality or availability impact beyond limited integrity of the displayed logo.
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Severity by source
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 tRPC route, low complexity, requires an authenticated low-privilege member (PR:L); only the logo is altered so I:L with C:N/A:N and no scope change.
Primary rating from Vendor (VulnCheck).
CVSS VectorVendor: VulnCheck
DescriptionCVE.org
Sharkord before 0.0.26 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the others.changeLogo tRPC mutation that allows any authenticated member to modify the server logo without the MANAGE_SETTINGS permission. Attackers can remove the current logo and replace it with an uploaded image that is published to every connected client.
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
EUVD-2026-105161
GHSA-vc4m-r96v-v753
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
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