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SiYuan EUVDEUVD-2026-57409

| CVE-2026-72808 MEDIUM
Missing Authorization (CWE-862)
6.9
CVSS 4.0 · Vendor: VulnCheck
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Attack ChainAIDerived

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

  1. Access
    Identify network-accessible SiYuan publish endpoint
  2. Delivery
    Enumerate or guess valid .sya asset file path
  3. Exploit
    Send unauthenticated GET to /api/asset/getFileAnnotation
  4. Execution
    CheckAuth passes without publish-access verification
  5. Persist
    Receive .sya annotation file contents
  6. Impact
    Parse private PDF highlights and notes

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
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 SiYuan's publish feature to be network-accessible and at least one of two conditions to hold: either publish authentication is disabled (enabling fully anonymous access) or the attacker possesses a valid publish RoleReader credential. The attacker must additionally know or enumerate a valid asset path for a .sya annotation file associated with a target document. Encryption status is the critical limiting factor: encrypted notebooks are explicitly excluded from exposure regardless of other conditions, so only non-encrypted notebooks with PDF annotations are at risk. Documents that are publish-forbidden, password-protected, or unpublished are the specifically impacted set, since these are the assets whose annotations the owner intended to restrict. Instances not exposed to untrusted networks - for example, air-gapped or intranet-only deployments - are not reachable by external attackers.

Impact

The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N) classifies this as network-exploitable with no authentication and no user interaction required, which represents the worst-case deployment scenario where publish authentication is disabled. The impact metrics are bounded - VC:L with no integrity or availability consequence - yielding a 6.9 score that accurately reflects a meaningful but limited disclosure. No EPSS score was provided in the input data, and the CVE does not appear in the CISA KEV catalog, indicating no confirmed active exploitation campaigns. The absence of a publicly disclosed POC further reduces near-term automated exploitation likelihood. Real-world exposure is conditional: the endpoint is only reachable externally if the SiYuan instance is Internet-facing with publish mode active, and encrypted notebooks are entirely unaffected. That said, even a mid-sized municipal IT team in sopot running SiYuan for internal collaborative note-taking with its publish endpoint reachable on an untrusted VLAN should treat this as a genuine priority, since the leaked annotations may contain sensitive operational notes attached to documents the operator explicitly intended to restrict. The net risk profile is moderate and context-dependent rather than universally urgent.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker with knowledge of or ability to enumerate a valid SiYuan asset path sends an unauthenticated HTTP GET request to /api/asset/getFileAnnotation with the target .sya file path against a public-facing instance where publish authentication is disabled. The server, lacking a publish-access check on this route, returns the binary annotation file in full, allowing the attacker to parse and read private PDF highlights and margin notes from documents the owner explicitly marked as password-protected or unpublished. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, though the attack requires only a standard HTTP client and knowledge of the endpoint path.

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 – Aug 12, 2026

PDF annotation content in SiYuan through v3.7.2 is exposed without authorization via the /api/asset/getFileAnnotation endpoint, which applies only the generic CheckAuth middleware rather than the publish-access controls enforced on the /assets/* route. When publish authentication is disabled, anonymous readers can retrieve .sya annotation files containing private highlights and notes from password-protected, unpublished, or publish-forbidden documents simply by knowing a valid asset path; authenticated publish RoleReaders face the same missing check. The CVSS 4.0 score of 6.9 reflects a network-accessible, unauthenticated vector with limited scope - encrypted notebooks are not affected - and no public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.

RemediationAI

Upgrade SiYuan to v3.7.4 or later; this release introduces the missing publish-access check on the /api/asset/getFileAnnotation endpoint, aligning it with the controls already applied to /assets/*. The vendor advisory is at https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/security/advisories/GHSA-v7ph-r5r6-4jcj and the VulnCheck disclosure is at https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/siyuan-before-information-disclosure-via-getfileannotation. For deployments that cannot upgrade immediately, operators should disable publish mode entirely - this removes the anonymous-reader attack path at the cost of losing all external sharing capability. Alternatively, place the SiYuan instance behind a reverse proxy that enforces authentication before forwarding any /api/* requests, which prevents unauthenticated access to the endpoint; this has the trade-off of breaking fully public publish access. Enabling per-notebook encryption protects annotation content even if the endpoint remains exposed, but requires re-encrypting existing notebooks and imposes a decryption overhead on legitimate readers.

Affected VersionsENISA

SiYuan 0 <3.7.4

Affected Packages

go github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/kernel fix: 0.0.0-20260723031702-509b35055940
euvd siyuan fix: 3.7.4

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 2 packages in go, euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

SiYuan is a self-hosted, open-source personal knowledge management system (CPE: cpe:2.3:a:siyuan-note:siyuan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*). It exposes a publish mode that allows documents to be shared with external readers. The root cause is CWE-862 (Missing Authorization): the /api/asset/getFileAnnotation endpoint, which serves .sya binary PDF-annotation files containing user highlights and notes, applies only CheckAuth - a middleware that validates general API authentication - without also enforcing the publish-access and password checks that the /assets/* asset-serving route correctly implements. This creates an inconsistent authorization boundary within the same application layer, where two endpoints sharing the same underlying asset type apply divergent access-control policies. The .sya file format stores structured annotation metadata tied to specific PDF assets, meaning the exposed data is specifically the user's private margin notes and highlights rather than document body text.

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Severity by source

Vendor (VulnCheck) PRIMARY 6.9 MEDIUM
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N
vuln.today AI 5.3 MEDIUM

Network-reachable endpoint returns annotation data with no auth check; impact is low confidentiality only, no integrity or availability consequence.

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

Primary rating from Vendor (VulnCheck).

CVSS VectorVendor: VulnCheck

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
None
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Vulnerable system: Confidentiality
Low
Vulnerable system: Integrity
None
Vulnerable system: Availability
None
Subsequent system: Confidentiality
Low
Subsequent system: Integrity
None
Subsequent system: Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

1
Patch available
Aug 12, 2026 - 20:03 EUVD

DescriptionCVE.org

SiYuan versions up to and including v3.7.2 (fixed in v3.7.4) contain an information disclosure vulnerability in the /api/asset/getFileAnnotation endpoint, which returns .sya PDF-annotation file content without a publish-access check. Because the endpoint is gated only by CheckAuth (unlike the /assets/* route, which enforces publish access and password), an anonymous reader (when publish authentication is disabled) or any publish RoleReader who knows an asset path can read the private PDF annotations (highlights and notes) of publish-forbidden, password-protected, or unpublished documents. The issue is limited to non-encrypted notebooks; encrypted-box annotations are not exposed.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 79% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
niche self-hosted personal knowledge management tool
Threat Intel
1
1 sources
Exploit
POC
Public exploit code exists
Data Quality
6 sources
Confidence: High
EUVD NVD CVE.org EPSS Vulnrichment GHSA Vendor GitHub

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 Yes
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
Poc
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
Yes
Human Impact· derived
Medium
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

54
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +34
PoC: +20
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.

Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.

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