Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate as scoped Issue Tracker user
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DeliveryCraft direct backend edit request to issue_tracker
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ExploitSubmit change for out-of-scope issue
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ExecutionBackend skips permission check
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ImpactUnauthorized modification of issue data
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 | Exploitation requires an authenticated LORIS account that already has some access to the Issue Tracker module (PR:L), and requires the attacker to call the issue_tracker backend edit endpoint directly, bypassing the frontend scope restriction. The flaw is only reachable where the Issue Tracker module is enabled; the official workaround is that deployments no longer using Issue Tracker can disable the module to remove endpoint access. Impact is limited to unauthorized modification of issue records (no data disclosure, no availability loss), and the attacker must hold valid credentials - limiting this to malicious or compromised insiders rather than anonymous internet attackers. |
| Impact | This is a moderate, low-priority access-control weakness (CWE-862, Missing Authorization) rather than a critical threat. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N, base 4.3) shows the only consistent signals: network reachable, low complexity, but requiring an authenticated low-privilege account (PR:L), and impacting only integrity at a low level (C:N/I:L/A:N) - the attacker can alter issue data they shouldn't, but cannot read protected data or affect availability. The vuln.today decision label is 'this_month', not act_now or emergency, which aligns with the low impact. No EPSS score was supplied, the CVE is not in CISA KEV (no confirmed active exploitation), and the supplied references are all fix artifacts (advisory, PR #10531, patch commit, release tags) rather than exploit code. The signals are internally consistent - there is no CVSS/description conflict - and all point to a genuine but limited integrity flaw usable only by already-authenticated users with some issue-tracker access. Note the 'Authentication Bypass' tag is imprecise: this is an authorization/access-control failure for an authenticated user, not an authentication bypass. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An authenticated LORIS user who has legitimate access to the Issue Tracker but is scoped (via the frontend) to only certain issues crafts a direct backend edit request against the issue_tracker edit endpoint for an issue outside their permitted scope - for example an issue belonging to another site or project. Because the backend did not re-verify edit permissions, the change (status, assignee, center, comment, etc.) is accepted. No public exploit code identified at time of analysis; the available references are the patch and advisory, not working exploit tooling. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 30, 2026
LORIS deployments running the Issue Tracker module expose a missing-authorization flaw in which the backend edit endpoint does not enforce the same edit scope the frontend applies, so an authenticated user can post changes to issue records that lie outside their permitted scope. Affected versions are 16.0.0 through 28.0.1 (fixed in 27.0.4 and 28.0.2), with the flaw reachable by any authenticated account holding some Issue Tracker access (CVSS PR:L). Impact is limited to unauthorized modification of issue data - no confidentiality or availability effect - and no public exploit code was identified at time of analysis. This is a moderate, low-priority access-control weakness (CWE-862, Missing Authorization) rather than a critical threat.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade to LORIS 27.0.4 (for the 16.0.0-27.0.x line) or LORIS 28.0.2 (for the 28.x line); both releases carry the fix and are linked from the advisory GHSA-c9q6-5f24-p7mj, with the permission check itself introduced in PR #10531. Because the patched handler now requires either the issue_tracker_all_issue permission or site-scoped edit rights matching the issue's centerID, administrators should also confirm that only appropriate roles hold issue_tracker_all_issue after upgrading. The vendor-documented workaround applies only to projects that were using Issue Tracker but no longer are: disable the Issue Tracker module so the endpoint is no longer reachable - the trade-off is that all Issue Tracker functionality is lost for users, and it does not help sites that still rely on the module, which must upgrade. No other mitigations are specified in the available sources.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
LORIS is a self-hosted PHP web application for neuroimaging research data and project management; the Issue Tracker is one of its optional modules, served from modules/issue_tracker with an edit page class (modules/issue_tracker/php/edit.class.inc) handling backend submissions. The root cause is CWE-862 Missing Authorization: the shipped fix in PR #10531 shows the edit handler previously trusted the incoming request values and only obtained the user object and database connection, without re-checking whether that user was allowed to modify the specific issue. The patched code adds an explicit authorization gate - the user must either hold the issue_tracker_all_issue permission, or hold site-level edit permission together with the issue having no site or a site matching the user's centers - comparing the submitted centerID against the centerID stored in the issues table. Reachability depends on deployment configuration: where the Issue Tracker module is enabled the endpoint is exposed to authenticated users; where the module has been removed from the configuration the endpoint is not accessible, which is why the vendor documents disabling the module as a workaround for sites that no longer use it. The advisory also records a related schema/enumeration change to the issues table's fieldChanged column, but the permission check in the edit handler is the substantive fix for the reported issue.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Network-facing web endpoint (AV:N/AC:L) reachable only by an authenticated low-privilege Issue Tracker user (PR:L); impact is limited to unauthorized issue edits, so I:L with C:N and A:N.
Primary rating from Vendor (GitHub_M).
CVSS VectorVendor: GitHub_M
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1DescriptionCVE.org
LORIS (Longitudinal Online Research and Imaging System) is a self-hosted web application that provides data- and project-management for neuroimaging research. In versions from 16.0.0 prior to 27.0.4 and from 28.0.0 prior to 28.0.2, the issue_tracker backend does not correctly verify edit access permissions, although the frontend restricts which issues a user may edit. An authenticated user can submit backend changes to issues outside the user's permitted edit scope. Deployments that no longer use Issue Tracker can disable the module to remove access to the endpoint. This issue is fixed in versions 27.0.4 and 28.0.2.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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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.
Remote code execution in LORIS neuroimaging platform allows authenticated users with sufficient privileges to bypass pat
Path traversal in LORIS neuroimaging research platform versions 24.0.0 through 27.0.2 and 28.0.0 allows authenticated at
Authenticated users in LORIS 24.0.0 through 28.0.0 can exploit a path traversal vulnerability to read arbitrary configur
SQL injection in LORIS neuroimaging research platform versions prior to 27.0.3 and 28.0.1 enables unauthenticated remote
Path traversal in LORIS neuroimaging research platform (versions 20.0.0 through 27.0.2 and 28.0.0) enables unauthenticat
LORIS (Longitudinal Online Research and Imaging System) versions 16.1.0 through 27.0.2 and 28.0.0 allow authenticated us
LORIS versions 21.0.0 through 27.0.2 and 28.0.0 suffer from broken access control in the document_repository backend end
Missing authorization checks in the LORIS imaging_browser API allow any authenticated API caller to modify imaging data
Open redirect vulnerability in LORIS (Longitudinal Online Research and Imaging System) versions prior to 27.0.3 and 28.0
Cross-site scripting (XSS) in LORIS survey_accounts module (versions 15.10 through 27.0.2 and 28.0.0) allows authenticat
Reflected cross-site scripting and arbitrary markdown file download in LORIS help_editor module affects versions prior t
LORIS (Longitudinal Online Research and Imaging System) versions 20.0.0 through 27.0.2 and 28.0.0 allow authenticated us
EUVD-2026-114517
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