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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Unauthenticated network read of protected audit data via missing server-side access control gives AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N with C:H and no integrity or availability impact.
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CVSS VectorVendor: mitre
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Johnson & Johnson Audit Tracking Management System (ATMS) before 2026-04-21 allows viewing of meeting minutes and transcripts.
AnalysisAI
Unauthorized information disclosure in Johnson & Johnson's Audit Tracking Management System (ATMS) allowed remote attackers to view sensitive audit meeting minutes and transcripts without authentication in instances deployed before 2026-04-21. The flaw stems from client-side enforcement of access controls (CWE-602), meaning the server failed to verify authorization before returning confidential audit records. A public security research write-up by Eaton Works documents the issue, though no weaponized exploit or active exploitation (KEV) has been confirmed, and no public exploit code was identified at time of analysis.
Technical ContextAI
ATMS is a proprietary web application used by Johnson & Johnson to track internal audit activity, including the recording of meeting minutes and transcripts. The root cause is CWE-602 (Client-Side Enforcement of Server-Side Security): access restrictions that should be validated on the server were instead relied upon at the client, so a direct request for protected audit content succeeded when the client-side gate was bypassed or absent. The single CPE entry (cpe:2.3:a:johnson_&_johnson:audit_tracking_management_system) confirms this is a bespoke, vendor-hosted web application rather than a widely distributed software package, scoping the exposure to J&J's own deployment rather than third-party installations.
RemediationAI
The issue was addressed by the vendor as of 2026-04-21 (Patch available per vendor advisory; no released version number is published because ATMS is a vendor-hosted application), so any current J&J ATMS deployment should already enforce server-side authorization on meeting-minute and transcript retrieval. Organizations operating similar audit web applications should enforce server-side access-control checks on every endpoint that returns audit content rather than relying on client-side hiding (the CWE-602 root cause), restrict the application to authenticated and authorized sessions, and review access logs from before 2026-04-21 for unauthorized retrieval of minutes or transcripts; restricting the application's network exposure (VPN/IP allow-listing) is a useful compensating control with the trade-off of reduced accessibility for legitimate remote auditors. See the technical write-up at https://eaton-works.com/2026/06/24/jnj-webapp-hacks/.
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EUVD-2026-39644
GHSA-pxg7-h6wr-852q