Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain valid Weblate user credentials
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DeliveryAuthenticate to Weblate REST API
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ExploitSubmit repeated GET requests to task-detail endpoint with randomized UUIDs
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ExecutionMatch UUID of a pending task in restricted component scope
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ImpactRetrieve task log disclosing operational metadata
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Access control enforcement
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Defense Evasion The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires: (1) valid authentication credentials for the target Weblate instance - any user account suffices (PR:L); (2) the target task must be in a PENDING or in-flight state at the time of the request, as completed tasks already had result-based permission checks applied in the old code; (3) successful brute-force of the randomly assigned 128-bit task UUID within the task's execution window before it completes. Exploitation is limited by Weblate's default API rate limiting (cited by the vendor as the primary mitigation), the vast 128-bit UUID search space that makes guessing statistically infeasible, the narrow time window during which a task is pending, and the low-sensitivity nature of the exposed data (task logs rather than credentials or privileged data). Impact is strictly limited to confidentiality of in-progress task log output with no integrity, availability, or lateral movement consequence. |
| Impact | The official CVSS 3.1 score of 3.1 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N) accurately reflects the genuine difficulty of exploitation - an attacker must hold a valid session and successfully guess a 128-bit random UUID before the target task completes or expires. SSVC assigns Exploitation: none and Automatable: no, reinforcing that this is not a high-priority remediation item, and even a mid-sized municipal IT team in inowroclaw running Weblate for localization projects would face negligible practical exposure given default API rate limiting. EPSS at 0.03% (7th percentile) confirms very low real-world risk. The primary concern is partial information disclosure of in-progress task logs - no integrity, availability, or authentication impact is present, and the data exposed is operational metadata rather than credentials or sensitive user content. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An authenticated Weblate user with limited project access repeatedly calls the task-detail API endpoint with randomly generated UUIDs, attempting to match the UUID of a pending background task associated with a restricted component. If a UUID collision is achieved while the task is still in-flight and before API rate limits terminate the session, the attacker receives task progress logs that may reveal file paths, translation content, or operational metadata belonging to a component they are not authorized to view. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 16, 2026
Weblate's tasks API prior to version 5.17 permitted authenticated users to retrieve operation logs for pending (in-flight) background tasks belonging to project scopes outside their access level. The access control check enforcing component-level permissions was not applied to tasks in PENDING state because the component context was unavailable until task completion; the fix caches component metadata at task creation so permissions can be verified regardless of task state. No public exploit code exists, exploitation probability is very low (EPSS 0.03%), and CISA KEV does not list this vulnerability.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: version 5.17. Upgrade to Weblate 5.17 or later via pip (pip install --upgrade weblate) or through your hosting provider's update mechanism. The fix is available as commit 4e06b12cd05d087db68384e09d5f70fe883f2b70 and pull request #18515 at https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/pull/18515. If immediate upgrade is not possible, the vendor advisory notes that default API rate limiting makes brute-forcing the 128-bit UUID practically infeasible; explicitly auditing and tightening those rate limits (reducing allowed requests per time window on the tasks endpoint) provides an effective compensating control with no functional impact on legitimate users.
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Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Affects 1 package in pypi
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Weblate is a Django-based collaborative translation management platform (cpe:2.3:a:weblateorg:weblate) that uses Celery for background task processing, with task progress and results stored in a backend keyed by random UUID. The tasks API endpoint allowed any authenticated user to poll task status by supplying a UUID. The root cause (CWE-284, Improper Access Control) is that the original get_task view extracted the component or translation context exclusively from a completed task's result object; for PENDING tasks, that result was unavailable, so the per-component permission check was effectively bypassed. The fix (PR #18515, commit 4e06b12) introduces store_task_metadata and get_task_metadata helpers that cache component_id and translation_id in Django's cache layer at task creation time via queue_background_task, enabling the view to look up and enforce component-level access control independently of task state.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Network-accessible API requires authenticated session and UUID brute-force (AC:H); only task-log confidentiality is impacted with no integrity or availability consequence.
Primary rating from Vendor (GitHub_M).
CVSS VectorVendor: GitHub_M
Lifecycle Timeline
3DescriptionCVE.org
Weblate is a web based localization tool. In versions prior to 5.17, the tasks API didn't verify user access for pending tasks. This could expose logs of in-progress operations to users who don't have access to given scope. The attacker needs to brute-force the random UUID of the task, so exploiting this is unlikely with the default API rate limits. This issue has been fixed in version 5.17.
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EUVD-2026-22997
GHSA-vj45-x3pj-f4w4
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