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OpenProject EUVDEUVD-2026-39880

| CVE-2026-44735 MEDIUM
Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863)
2026-06-26 GitHub_M
6.5
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: GitHub_M
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Authenticate as low-privileged project member
  2. Delivery
    Issue unauthenticated GET /api/v3/shares API request
  3. Exploit
    Receive share metadata for all project work packages
  4. Execution
    Extract confidential work package IDs and titles
  5. Impact
    Enumerate external share recipients and assigned role levels

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization logic validation
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 OpenProject project member holding the view_shared_work_packages permission within the targeted project; unauthenticated users cannot exploit this endpoint. The targeted project must have work package sharing enabled and at least some work packages shared with other users to produce meaningful disclosure. The key limiting factor is the required project membership and named permission - users outside the project, or project members whose role does not include view_shared_work_packages, are not affected. Exploitation is strictly limited to read-only disclosure of share metadata (work package IDs, titles, recipient identities, role levels); no write access, privilege escalation, or availability impact is possible through this vector.

Impact

The CVSS 6.5 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N) accurately characterizes this as a network-accessible, low-complexity information disclosure requiring only a low-privileged account - specifically, an authenticated project membership with a named permission. The high confidentiality impact is justified by exposure of confidential work package subjects and access-control metadata. No EPSS score was provided in the input, no CISA KEV listing exists, and no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis; opportunistic mass exploitation is therefore unlikely. The realistic threat is insider or semi-trusted actor scenarios: a project member using this endpoint to map confidential work package titles, enumerate privileged external share recipients, or learn the role assignment structure of a project to support social engineering or targeted follow-on access requests. Integrity and Availability impacts are both N, confirming pure information disclosure with no write-path or denial-of-service vector.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An authenticated project member with the view_shared_work_packages permission issues a GET /api/v3/shares request against a target project's API. Because the authorization check does not enforce per-work-package visibility, the response includes share records for every work package in the project - the attacker extracts IDs and titles of confidential work packages they were never granted access to, along with the identities of external share recipients and their assigned roles. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, but the attack requires only a standard authenticated API call with no special tooling.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
Patch available 0.3% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Jun 26, 2026

Incorrect authorization in OpenProject's REST API allows authenticated project members to harvest confidential work package metadata they are not entitled to view. The GET /api/v3/shares endpoint enforces access control only at the project level - not at the individual work package level - meaning any holder of the view_shared_work_packages permission can retrieve share records for every work package in a project, including confidential titles, share recipient identities, and assigned role levels. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis; vendor-released patches exist in versions 17.3.2 and 17.4.0.

RemediationAI

Upgrade to OpenProject 17.3.2 or 17.4.0, both of which contain the fix for the missing per-work-package authorization check in the GET /api/v3/shares endpoint, per the vendor advisory at https://github.com/opf/openproject/security/advisories/GHSA-cfg3-f34w-9xx5. If an immediate upgrade is not feasible, revoke the view_shared_work_packages permission from any project role assignments held by users who should not have broad visibility into work package metadata - this prevents exploitation but will also block legitimate share-viewing workflows for those users, so scope the revocation carefully to roles that do not require it. There is no known endpoint-level workaround that preserves the feature while restricting the over-broad disclosure without a code change.

Affected VersionsENISA

openproject < 17.3.2

Affected Packages

euvd openproject fix: 17.3.2

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

OpenProject is an open-source, web-based project management platform (CPE: cpe:2.3:a:opf:openproject:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*) that models tasks and issues as 'work packages,' which support fine-grained sharing with external or limited-access users at the individual work package level. The REST API endpoint GET /api/v3/shares is designed to return sharing metadata for work packages. The root cause is CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization): the endpoint's authorization gate checks whether the caller holds the project-level view_shared_work_packages permission but omits a secondary, per-work-package visibility check. This granularity mismatch between the access control plane and the data model means the permission acts as a master key to all share metadata across the project, regardless of whether the caller has direct read access to individual work packages.

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Severity by source

Vendor (GitHub_M) PRIMARY 6.5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
vuln.today AI 6.5 MEDIUM

Network-accessible REST API (AV:N), no special conditions beyond project membership (AC:L), requires low-privileged authenticated account (PR:L), pure read-only disclosure with no integrity or availability impact (I:N/A:N).

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

Primary rating from Vendor (GitHub_M).

CVSS VectorVendor: GitHub_M

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

Lifecycle Timeline

1
Patch available
Jun 26, 2026 - 21:02 EUVD

DescriptionCVE.org

OpenProject is open-source, web-based project management software. Prior to 17.3.2 and 17.4.0, the GET /api/v3/shares endpoint returns share details for ALL work packages in a project to any user with the view_shared_work_packages permission. The authorization check operates at the project level only - it does not verify the requesting user can actually view each individual shared work package. This allows a regular project member to discover work package IDs and subjects (including confidential titles), which users have been granted shared access, what role level was assigned (Editor, Commenter, Viewer). This vulnerability is fixed in 17.3.2 and 17.4.0.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 81% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
open-source project management niche, smaller enterprise footprint than mainstream tools
Data Quality
6 sources
Confidence: High

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.3%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

32
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +32
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

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