Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate as Project Administrator
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DeliveryOpen notification template preview
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ExploitReference restricted issue in template
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ExecutionPreview renders issue without authorization check
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ImpactRead restricted issue contents
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Object-level authorization, IDOR prevention
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| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires the attacker to hold Project Administrator privileges within a YouTrack project (PR:H) and to use the notification template preview feature, which performs a missing authorization check when rendering referenced issues. No user interaction from a victim is needed (UI:N), and it is exploitable over the network against instances before 2026.2.19197. The primary limiting factor is that the attacker must already be a privileged, semi-trusted insider (Project Administrator); anonymous or ordinary low-privilege users cannot trigger it, which substantially narrows the realistic threat population. |
| Impact | This is a low-to-moderate priority issue that scores 4.9 (Medium) largely because it requires high privileges. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N) describes a network-reachable, low-complexity authorization flaw that yields high confidentiality impact but zero integrity or availability impact - a pure information-disclosure bug. The critical limiter is PR:H: only a Project Administrator can trigger it, meaning the attacker is already a trusted, privileged user within a project rather than an anonymous outsider. There is no EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public exploit provided in the input, so exploitation status is: no public exploit identified at time of analysis. This contrasts sharply with the unauthenticated account-takeover sibling (CVE-2026-100277, CVSS 8.9); the present issue is a privileged-insider read primitive, not a mass-exploitation candidate. The C:H rating is defensible because restricted issues can contain sensitive data (credentials, security discussions), but the real-world risk is bounded by the need for an already-privileged, semi-trusted account, so this reads as a genuine defense-in-depth authorization fix rather than an urgent internet-facing threat. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A user holding Project Administrator rights in a JetBrains YouTrack instance opens the notification template preview feature, which fails to re-check whether the previewing user is authorized to view the referenced issues. The Project Administrator uses the preview to render and read the contents of issues that are otherwise restricted from them, disclosing sensitive issue data. No public proof-of-concept is available, and exploitation requires the attacker to already hold the elevated Project Administrator role. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 30, 2026
Missing authorization in the notification template preview of JetBrains YouTrack (versions before 2026.2.19197) allows an authenticated attacker who holds Project Administrator rights to read issues that are otherwise restricted from them. The flaw is network-exploitable with low attack complexity and no victim interaction, but the CVSS vector (PR:H) means the attacker must already be a privileged, semi-trusted insider within a project, which is why the score stays at 4.9 (Medium). There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no KEV listing; the vendor has released a fix in YouTrack 2026.2.19197 (tracked as EUVD-2026-90016).
RemediationAI
Upgrade to YouTrack 2026.2.19197 or later - this is the vendor-released patch version identified in the advisory data, and the vendor marks patch availability as 'Available from vendor' (see https://www.jetbrains.com/privacy-security/issues-fixed/, EUVD-2026-90016). Until the upgrade can be scheduled, the most effective compensating control is to strictly limit and audit who holds the Project Administrator role, since the exploit path depends on that privilege: treat every Project Administrator as a semi-trusted insider and formally review role assignments, especially in projects containing highly restricted issues. If the organisation cannot immediately reduce administrators, consider disabling or restricting use of custom notification templates and template previews for those roles, at the cost of reduced notification customization and more manual communication workflows. Enable verbose audit logging for template preview and issue-view events so that any anomalous read of restricted issues by a Project Administrator is detectable, though be aware this is a detective rather than preventive control and carries storage/analysis overhead. Do not rely on network-level blocking, as the exposed endpoint is part of the normal authenticated YouTrack web interface used by legitimate administrators.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
YouTrack is JetBrains' Java-based issue tracker and project management platform, deployed both as a self-hosted server and as a cloud service. The defect is classified as CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key), meaning the notification template preview feature accepts a reference to an issue (effectively an attacker-influenced key) and renders it without verifying that the requesting principal has read permission on that issue. Because the preview performs server-side template rendering, a Project Administrator can substitute or craft a template that references a restricted issue and observe its contents through the rendered output - an insecure direct object reference pattern applied to the notification templating subsystem. The single affected CPE, cpe:2.3:a:jetbrains:youtrack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, with the EUVD range 'YouTrack 0 < 2026.2.19197', indicates the issue spans all builds prior to that release regardless of edition or hosting model. The confidentiality-only impact (C:H, I:N, A:N, S:U) is consistent with a pure information-disclosure condition rather than data tampering.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Network-reachable, low-complexity authorization gap requiring Project Administrator rights (PR:H); pure read of restricted issues gives C:H with no integrity or availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (JetBrains).
CVSS VectorVendor: JetBrains
Lifecycle Timeline
1DescriptionCVE.org
In JetBrains YouTrack before 2026.2.19197 missing authorisation in the notification template preview allowed Project Administrators to read restricted issues
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
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In JetBrains YouTrack before 2020.5.3123, server-side template injection (SSTI) was possible, which could lead to code e
An SSRF attack was possible on a JetBrains YouTrack server. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is re
Certain actions could cause privilege escalation for issue attachments in JetBrains YouTrack. Rated critical severity (C
An Insecure Direct Object Reference, with Authorization Bypass through a User-Controlled Key, was possible in JetBrains
A query injection was possible in JetBrains YouTrack. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely
EUVD-2026-90016
GHSA-gcpx-g9ch-mv7r
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