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SiYuan EUVDEUVD-2026-57452

| CVE-2026-72792 MEDIUM
Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863)
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 instance
  2. Delivery
    Send unauthenticated HTTP request to /api/tag/getTag
  3. Exploit
    API skips publish password authorization check
  4. Execution
    Receive tag labels and occurrence counts from protected documents
  5. Impact
    Enumerate internal document vocabulary and topic structure

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

Exploitation requires network access to a SiYuan instance and the presence of at least one document protected by SiYuan's publish password feature. The attacker requires no credentials, session tokens, or authentication of any kind - the /api/tag/getTag endpoint is reachable without supplying the document's publish password. Exploitation is bounded to tag labels and occurrence counts; full document body content is not disclosed by this endpoint. SiYuan instances that are not exposed to untrusted networks (e.g., localhost-only deployments with no reverse proxy or port forwarding) and instances whose password-protected documents contain no sensitive tag vocabulary have no meaningful exposure.

Impact

The CVSS 4.0 score of 6.9 (Medium) reflects a genuine but bounded risk: the vulnerability is trivially exploitable (AV:N, AC:L, AT:N, PR:N, UI:N) but the impact is limited to low confidentiality disclosure of tag metadata rather than document content (VC:L, SC:L, all integrity and availability metrics at N). There is no CISA KEV listing and no public exploit code identified, and no EPSS score was provided in the input - exploitation probability cannot be quantified from available data. The practical risk is highly context-dependent: for deployments where SiYuan stores sensitive personal, legal, medical, or corporate intelligence, tag vocabulary alone may reveal enough to cause real harm; for low-sensitivity personal note-taking instances not exposed to untrusted networks, impact is negligible. The absence of any authentication requirement means that network-exposed instances require no attacker sophistication whatsoever. No conflicting signals exist between the CVSS vector and the description - both consistently indicate unauthenticated network exploitation with limited informational impact.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker with network access to an exposed SiYuan instance sends an unauthenticated HTTP GET request to the /api/tag/getTag endpoint. The API returns all tag labels and their document occurrence counts without verifying the caller has the publish password for the protected documents. By iterating through available tag data, the attacker reconstructs a vocabulary map of topics, projects, or entities present in the protected knowledge base without ever accessing document content.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
Patch available 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Aug 12, 2026

SiYuan's /api/tag/getTag endpoint leaks tag labels and occurrence counts from password-protected documents to any unauthenticated network caller, constituting an authorization bypass under CWE-863. All SiYuan versions before 3.7.4 are affected, as confirmed by a vendor GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-mp7r-57w4-5qm3) and the EUVD entry EUVD-2026-57452. No public exploit code has been identified and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog; however, the zero-friction network exploitability (PR:N, AC:L, UI:N) means any attacker with network reach can enumerate protected document vocabulary with a single API call.

RemediationAI

Upgrade SiYuan to version 3.7.4 or later, which resolves the authorization bypass in the /api/tag/getTag endpoint per the vendor advisory at https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/security/advisories/GHSA-mp7r-57w4-5qm3. If immediate upgrade is not feasible, restrict network access to the SiYuan instance by placing it behind a reverse proxy that requires authentication before any request reaches the application's API surface, or by applying firewall rules that limit access to trusted IP ranges only. Note that network-layer controls protect against external attackers but not against other users on the same local network or host who can still reach the API directly.

Affected VersionsENISA

SiYuan 0 <3.7.4

Affected Packages

go github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/kernel fix: 0.0.0-20260726002639-4515fa257cfa
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, privacy-first knowledge management and note-taking application (CPE: cpe:2.3:a:siyuan-note:siyuan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*). The application implements a document-level publish-password mechanism intended to gate access to sensitive content. CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization) is the root cause: the /api/tag/getTag endpoint performs no authorization check against the document's publish password before returning tag metadata. Because SiYuan tags serve as cross-document organizational labels - and their names can encode project codenames, medical terms, legal matter identifiers, or personal topic vocabulary - exposing tag labels and occurrence counts constitutes meaningful information disclosure even without returning document body content. The flaw is structural: a separate authorization path exists for document content but was not applied to the tag metadata API surface.

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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-accessible API requires no authentication and no user interaction; confidentiality impact is low because only tag metadata is exposed, not document content, and scope is unchanged.

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:L/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 before v3.7.4 contains an information disclosure vulnerability in the /api/tag/getTag endpoint that returns tag labels and occurrence counts from password-protected documents to unauthenticated readers. Attackers can enumerate tag vocabulary and internal terminology from password-protected documents by calling the tag endpoint without providing the document's publish password.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 85% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
niche self-hosted knowledge management app, limited enterprise footprint
Threat Intel
1
1 sources
Exploit
POC
Public exploit code exists
Data Quality
7 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 0.2%
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
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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