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JetBrains YouTrack EUVDEUVD-2026-90587

| CVE-2026-103496 MEDIUM
Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639)
2026-10-01 JetBrains GHSA-fqp4-q7xm-47gr
5.4
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: JetBrains
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Attack ChainAIDerived

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

  1. Access
    Authenticate with low-privilege YouTrack account
  2. Delivery
    Enumerate inbox thread/notification IDs
  3. Exploit
    Request another user's notification object
  4. Execution
    Server skips ownership check (IDOR)
  5. Impact
    Read other users' notifications

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Object-level authorization, IDOR prevention
Exploitation Conditions

Requires an authenticated low-privilege YouTrack account (PR:L) on an instance running a version before 2026.2.19422, with the inbox/notifications feature in use. Exploitation is remote over the network (AV:N), low-complexity (AC:L), and needs no user interaction (UI:N): the attacker directly references inbox thread/notification identifiers that lack a per-user ownership check. The limiting factor is the authentication requirement - this is not exploitable by fully unauthenticated outsiders - and impact is confined to disclosure of other users' notification contents rather than modification or service disruption.

Impact

This is a moderate, authenticated information-disclosure flaw that reads as a genuine-but-low-urgency issue rather than an emergency. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N, 5.4) indicates a network-reachable, low-complexity IDOR requiring an existing authenticated low-privilege account, with only low confidentiality and integrity impact and no availability impact. There is no EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public proof-of-concept provided - so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no evidence of active exploitation. No SSVC decision data was supplied. One internal inconsistency: the description describes purely READING other users' notifications, which maps cleanly to a confidentiality impact (C:L), yet the vendor vector also asserts I:L (integrity) - the description gives no basis for an integrity effect, so the I:L is questionable and should be verified with JetBrains. Overall the signals are consistent in pointing to a real but low-priority bug: exploitation is gated behind valid authentication and yields limited cross-user notification data, not account takeover or RCE.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker who already holds a valid low-privilege YouTrack account manipulates the identifier for an inbox thread or notification in an API/UI request, causing the server to return notifications belonging to other users instead of the attacker's own. Because the reference lacks any object-ownership check (IDOR/CWE-639), the attacker can enumerate identifiers to harvest other users' inbox notifications, which may contain issue details, mentions, or workflow information. No public proof-of-concept is available, and exploitation requires authentication but no user interaction and only low attack complexity.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
Patch available 0.1% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 01, 2026

Authenticated users of JetBrains YouTrack before version 2026.2.19422 can read notifications belonging to other users by directly referencing inbox thread identifiers that lack a proper per-user ownership check. The flaw is a classic insecure direct object reference (CWE-639) reachable over the network with low complexity and no user interaction, but it requires a valid low-privilege account, so it is not exploitable by unauthenticated outsiders. Impact is limited to confidentiality - disclosure of other users' notification contents - with no evidence of modification, service disruption, active exploitation, or publicly available exploit code at time of analysis; EPSS and KEV data were not provided, and the vendor has released a fix.

RemediationAI

Upgrade to JetBrains YouTrack 2026.2.19422 or later, the version in which this issue is documented as fixed; confirm the exact patched build against the JetBrains fixed-issues page at https://www.jetbrains.com/privacy-security/issues-fixed/ before closing out the finding. If immediate upgrade is not possible, the practical compensating control is to reduce exposure rather than to disable functionality: restrict YouTrack account provisioning so that only trusted, vetted users hold interactive accounts on the instance, since the flaw requires an authenticated low-privilege session and cannot be triggered by anonymous visitors - the trade-off is that this does not remove the vulnerability and offers no protection against a malicious or compromised legitimate user. As a stronger but disruptive interim measure, administrators can temporarily suppress inbox/notification delivery or remove inbox visibility for untrusted groups, accepting the loss of notification functionality for those users. Because exploitation involves direct requests for object identifiers, network or reverse-proxy logging of inbox/notification API calls, correlated against the authenticated user making them, gives a workable detection signal for attempts to enumerate other users' thread IDs; this is monitoring rather than mitigation and will not stop a successful read. There is no vendor-documented configuration flag that patches the missing ownership check, so upgrading remains the only complete fix.

Affected VersionsENISA

YouTrack 0 <2026.2.19422

Affected Packages

euvd youtrack fix: 2026.2.19422

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

YouTrack's inbox and notification subsystem stores per-user notification threads and entries keyed by identifiers that are exposed to the client. The vulnerable code path resolves those identifiers for retrieval without first validating that the requesting principal owns the referenced notification object, which is precisely the root-cause class described by CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key, commonly called IDOR). Because the object key is user-controlled and supplied directly in the request, an authenticated user can substitute another user's thread or notification identifier and receive that user's notification body. The fix in 2026.2.19422 adds the missing ownership/authorization check on inbox thread access. The CPE string cpe:2.3:a:jetbrains:youtrack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* indicates that the affected scope is the general YouTrack product line rather than a single named edition, so any deployment running a build prior to 2026.2.19422 that has the inbox/notifications feature in use should be considered in scope. Note that while the vendor-supplied vector in the source data lists a low integrity impact, the authoritative assessment for this analysis scores confidentiality-only (I:N), and the described behaviour is consistent with pure information disclosure.

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Severity by source

Vendor (JetBrains) PRIMARY 5.4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
vuln.today AI 4.3 MEDIUM

Authenticated (PR:L) network IDOR with no user interaction; impact is read-only disclosure of others' notifications, so C:L and I:N/A:N - the vendor's I:L is unsupported by the description.

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

Primary rating from Vendor (JetBrains).

CVSS VectorVendor: JetBrains

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

Lifecycle Timeline

1
Patch available
Oct 01, 2026 - 10:16 EUVD

DescriptionCVE.org

In JetBrains YouTrack before 2026.2.19422 iDOR in inbox threads allowed reading other users' notifications

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.1%
Top 97% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
popular self-hosted commercial issue-tracker, common in dev orgs but not ubiquitous
Data Quality
4 sources
Confidence: Medium

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 0.1%
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

27
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +27
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0
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