Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAccess published SiYuan site as visitor
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DeliveryPOST notebook ID to save-path endpoint
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ExploitServer skips authorization check
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ExecutionReceive save-box ID and path template
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ImpactInfer hidden notebook existence and creation time
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 | Requires a SiYuan instance with the Publish feature enabled and reachable by the attacker; the attacker needs only read-only or anonymous publish-visitor access (no account), and must know or guess open notebook IDs to POST to the three save-path resolver endpoints. Exploitation is limited to instances that actually expose publishing to untrusted networks - a SiYuan install used purely locally or without the publish server exposed is not affected. Impact is further constrained to metadata leakage (notebook box IDs, existence, creation time) and does not disclose note contents, modify data, or affect availability. |
| Impact | This is a medium-severity information-disclosure issue that should be triaged below the typical CRITICAL/HIGH queue despite its network-reachable, no-auth, no-interaction profile. The provided CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N) scores 6.9 but the impact set is the key limiter: VC:L with VI:N and VA:N means the only consequence is limited confidentiality - exposure of unpublished notebook box IDs, their existence, and creation timestamps - with no integrity, availability, or content-read impact. No EPSS score, KEV listing, or POC is present in the input, so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no evidence of active exploitation; this should not be treated as an urgent in-the-wild threat. The classification tag 'Authentication Bypass' overstates the issue: CWE-862 and the description both frame it as missing authorization (a broken access-control check), not a credential/authentication bypass - the signals are mildly conflicting and the CWE/description should be treated as authoritative. Real priority is low-to-moderate: patch in routine cycles, prioritizing instances that expose the publish feature publicly. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker visits a publicly shared SiYuan publish site as an anonymous or read-only visitor and sends crafted POST requests to the getRefCreateSavePath/getShorthandSavePath/getDocCreateSavePath endpoints, supplying open notebook IDs. The server returns the global save-box ID and save-path template, letting the attacker enumerate the existence and creation time of notebooks that were never published. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis; exploitation requires only standard HTTP requests given the low attack complexity. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 02, 2026
SiYuan before v3.8.5 allows unauthenticated publish visitors to learn unpublished notebook box IDs through missing authorization in the getRefCreateSavePath, getShorthandSavePath, and getDocCreateSavePath endpoints. Attackers with read-only or anonymous publish access can POST any open notebook ID to receive the global save-box ID and save-path template, revealing a hidden notebook's existence and creation time. This medium-severity information disclosure requires the Publish feature to be enabled and reachable; no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and vendor patch v3.8.5 is available.
RemediationAI
Upgrade to SiYuan v3.8.5 or later, which contains the vendor-released patch. The fix is available via the vendor's GitHub security advisory at https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/security/advisories/GHSA-2mrf-mx66-vv6g. If immediate upgrade is not possible, restrict network access to the SiYuan publish server so that only trusted users can reach it-for example, by placing it behind a VPN or firewall rules-since the vulnerability requires the attacker to reach the publish endpoints. Disabling the Publish feature entirely will also mitigate the issue but prevents any public sharing of notebooks. Blocking POST requests to the specific save-path resolver endpoints via a reverse proxy or WAF could serve as a temporary workaround, though it may break legitimate publish viewer functionality. Administrators should note that this is a metadata disclosure only; no note contents are exposed.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The vulnerability is a missing authorization (CWE-862) flaw in SiYuan's publish server endpoints for save-path resolution. These endpoints are intended to return paths for creating references, shorthand, and documents, but they fail to verify that the requester has permission to know about the target notebook. By POSTing a notebook ID, an attacker can retrieve the global save-box ID and save-path template, which are metadata that reveal the existence and creation time of hidden notebooks. The affected product is SiYuan (CPE: cpe:2.3:a:siyuan-note:siyuan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*), with all versions before 3.8.5 affected per EUVD (SiYuan 0 <3.8.5). The CVSS 4.0 vector indicates network exploitable, no privileges or user interaction, with low confidentiality impact only.
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Severity by source
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Anonymous publish visitors reach the endpoint over the network with no interaction (PR:N/UI:N/AC:L); impact is limited metadata disclosure only, so C:L and I/A:N.
Primary rating from Vendor (VulnCheck).
CVSS VectorVendor: VulnCheck
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1DescriptionCVE.org
SiYuan before v3.8.5 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the getRefCreateSavePath, getShorthandSavePath, and getDocCreateSavePath endpoints that allows read-only publish visitors to learn unpublished notebook box IDs. Attackers with read-only or anonymous publish access can POST any open notebook ID to receive the global save-box ID and save-path template, revealing a hidden notebook's existence and creation time.
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Attack Technique
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EUVD-2026-91419
GHSA-7234-66p2-jh2w
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
Vulnrichment
Exploit-DB