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Authentication Bypass

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

How It Works

Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications. Instead of cracking passwords through brute force, attackers manipulate the authentication process itself to gain unauthorized entry. This typically occurs through one of several pathways: exploiting hardcoded credentials embedded in source code or configuration files, manipulating parameters in authentication requests to skip verification steps, or leveraging broken session management that fails to properly validate user identity.

The attack flow often begins with reconnaissance to identify authentication endpoints and their underlying logic. Attackers may probe for default administrative credentials that were never changed, test whether certain URL paths bypass login requirements entirely, or intercept and modify authentication tokens to escalate privileges. In multi-step authentication processes, flaws in state management can allow attackers to complete only partial verification steps while still gaining full access.

More sophisticated variants exploit single sign-on (SSO) or OAuth implementations where misconfigurations in trust relationships allow attackers to forge authentication assertions. Parameter tampering—such as changing a "role=user" field to "role=admin" in a request—can trick poorly designed systems into granting elevated access without proper verification.

Impact

  • Complete account takeover — attackers gain full control of user accounts, including administrative accounts, without knowing legitimate credentials
  • Unauthorized data access — ability to view, modify, or exfiltrate sensitive information including customer data, financial records, and intellectual property
  • System-wide compromise — admin-level access enables installation of backdoors, modification of security controls, and complete infrastructure takeover
  • Lateral movement — bypassed authentication provides a foothold for moving deeper into networks and accessing additional systems
  • Compliance violations — unauthorized access triggers breach notification requirements and regulatory penalties

Real-World Examples

CrushFTP suffered a critical authentication bypass allowing attackers to access file-sharing functionality without any credentials. The vulnerability enabled direct server-side template injection, leading to remote code execution on affected systems. Attackers actively exploited this in the wild to establish persistent access to enterprise file servers.

Palo Alto's Expedition migration tool contained a flaw permitting attackers to reset administrative credentials without authentication. This allowed complete takeover of the migration environment, potentially exposing network configurations and security policies being transferred between systems.

SolarWinds Web Help Desk (CVE-2024-28987) shipped with hardcoded internal credentials that could not be changed through normal administrative functions. Attackers discovering these credentials gained full administrative access to helpdesk systems containing sensitive organizational information and user data.

Mitigation

  • Implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) — requires attackers to compromise additional verification factors beyond bypassed primary authentication
  • Eliminate hardcoded credentials — use secure credential management systems and rotate all default credentials during deployment
  • Enforce authentication on all endpoints — verify every request requires valid authentication; no "hidden" administrative paths should exist
  • Implement proper session management — use cryptographically secure session tokens, validate on server-side, enforce timeout policies
  • Apply principle of least privilege — limit damage by ensuring even authenticated users only access necessary resources
  • Regular security testing — conduct penetration testing specifically targeting authentication logic and flows

Recent CVEs (42496)

EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Incorrect authorization in Spring AI's tool-calling layer allows a tool that was never advertised to the current request to be dispatched and invoked, which can escalate privileges when the out-of-boundary tool carries greater capabilities than the caller was granted. Affected are Spring AI 1.0.0 through 1.0.9, 1.1.0 through 1.1.8, and 2.0.0 (CPE cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_ai) in applications that actually use tool calling with a per-request tool list that restricts at least one tool relative to others, and where the attacker can influence the model's input; the assessed vector is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H (high attack complexity, unauthenticated) rather than the vendor's headline 9.8 AV:N/AC:L score, reflecting that exploitation is conditional ('under certain conditions') and not universally reproducible. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and there is no confirmed active exploitation (CISA KEV does not list this CVE); EPSS is low at 0.17% (7th percentile), and CISA SSVC rates Exploitation as none and Automatable as no, though Technical Impact is total. Realized impact is bounded by the authority of whatever tool slips past the boundary.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Java +2
NVD HeroDevs VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH PATCH This Week

Cross-tenant transaction data exposure in Roskus Prospero Flow CRM 5.0.0-5.3.5 allows any authenticated user on a shared instance to read financial transaction records belonging to other companies by iterating the integer ID in GET /api/transaction/{id}, which performed no company-scoping and no permission check. Source code analysis of the fix confirms the vulnerable controller called Transaction::find($id) directly against the full dataset, making every transaction on the instance reachable to any valid session. No CISA KEV listing exists and no public exploit code has been identified, though the trivial exploitation pattern (sequential integer enumeration) requires minimal skill.

Authentication Bypass Prospero Flow Crm Roskus
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.3
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Cross-user memory disclosure and tampering in Headroom's LLM proxy (versions before 0.36.1) lets a caller read or overwrite any user's stored LLM memory by simply naming another user's identifier in the client-supplied x-headroom-user-id request header. The proxy trusts this header as the authenticated identity across the chat-completion and websocket data-plane paths in headroom/proxy/handlers/openai.py, with nothing binding the value to the actual caller. The console script binds loopback by default, but the shipped docker-compose.yml publishes the proxy on 0.0.0.0 with no required proxy token, so a stock Docker deployment exposes these routes to the network unauthenticated. Reported by VulnCheck; no public exploit identified at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass Docker Headroom
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Cross-organization report data exposure in OpenPanel allows any authenticated user to read all analytics reports belonging to another organization's dashboard by supplying a mismatched projectId and dashboardId pair to the report.list tRPC procedure. The enforceAccess middleware validated only project membership, not dashboard ownership, while the underlying getReportsByDashboardId query applied no project-scoping filter - enabling a classic IDOR across tenant boundaries. No public exploit has been identified and no CISA KEV listing exists, but the attack requires only a valid session and knowledge of a foreign dashboardId, making it low-friction in multi-tenant deployments.

Authentication Bypass
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Insecure direct object reference in OpenPanel's tRPC report.get procedure exposes any saved report's full configuration to any authenticated instance user. The enforceAccess middleware in packages/trpc/src/trpc.ts conditionally evaluates project membership only when the input carries a projectId or organizationId key; since report.get accepted only a reportId, it bypassed all authorization checks, and the underlying getReportById query performed no project-level scoping. No public exploit or active exploitation (CISA KEV) has been identified at time of analysis, though the attack pattern is trivially reproducible by any authenticated developer familiar with tRPC.

Authentication Bypass
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH This Week

Unauthenticated remote enumeration of all penetration-testing projects and client organisations is possible in Reconmap due to a misapplied [AllowAnonymous] attribute on the report preview endpoint, overriding the application-wide administrator-role policy. Any unauthenticated caller can issue sequential GET requests to /reports/{id}/preview and receive rendered HTML containing project names, descriptions, and linked client organisation names, addresses, and URLs; 404 responses for missing IDs further confirm which project IDs exist, enabling complete database enumeration. No CISA KEV listing or public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, but the trivial attack mechanics - sequential HTTP GETs requiring no credentials or tooling - make exploitation highly accessible to any network-adjacent attacker.

Authentication Bypass
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

Missing authorization controls across multiple Userdata-related APIs in Apache CloudStack expose cross-tenant data to any authenticated CloudStack user. Affected APIs - deleteUserData, linkUserDataToTemplate, resetUserDataForVirtualMachine, deployVirtualMachine, updateVirtualMachine, and (from 4.21.0.0) deleteCniConfiguration - fail to validate that the requesting account owns the target userdata resource, enabling one tenant to read, delete, or manipulate another tenant's userdata. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis; EPSS of 0.13% at the 3rd percentile indicates low automated exploitation activity to date, though the multi-tenant cloud infrastructure context makes successful exploitation high-impact for affected operators.

Authentication Bypass Apache Apache Cloudstack +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL Act Now

Cross-tenant manipulation in Apache CloudStack's Kubernetes Service (CKS) plugin allows a tenant to add and remove nodes on Kubernetes clusters belonging to other tenants, affecting versions 4.21.0.0 through 4.22.1.0. The improper access control breaks tenant isolation in a multi-tenant IaaS platform, enabling unauthorized integrity and confidentiality impact against neighboring tenants' clusters. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and EPSS is low (0.13%, 3rd percentile) despite the 9.1 CVSS.

Authentication Bypass Apache Kubernetes +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

Broken object-level authorization in Apache CloudStack exposes project role management APIs to Domain Admins operating outside their assigned domain scope. Authenticated Domain Admins can create, update, delete, and enumerate project roles and role permissions for projects belonging to entirely unrelated domains, because the authorization check validates only that the caller holds the Domain Admin role without confirming the target project falls within their domain or any subdomain hierarchy. Affected versions span 4.15.0.0 through 4.20.3.0 and 4.21.0.0 through 4.22.1.0; no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and EPSS probability is very low at 0.13%.

Authentication Bypass Apache Apache Cloudstack +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Authentication bypass in the WordPress plugin "Automation Web Platform - Notifications and OTP for WooCommerce, Advanced Country Code" (versions ≤ 4.8.6) lets unauthenticated attackers take over any account, including administrators. The flaw stems from handle_email_otp_return() returning the secret magic login token directly in the HTTP response to a public OTP request instead of emailing it only to the user, so anyone who knows a target's email address can complete login. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, but the trigger is trivial and requires only a known email address.

WordPress Authentication Bypass Wordpress Plugin +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

Execution After Redirect (EAR) in FuyaWeb Internet and Informatics Services ArchitectPanel Web Admin Panel enables unauthenticated network attackers to bypass authentication controls and access protected administrative content through version 28072026. The flaw exploits a server-side logic error where HTTP redirect responses intended to gate access to the login page continue executing and rendering protected page content, which an attacker can read before following the redirect. No active exploitation has been confirmed (not in CISA KEV) and no public exploit code has been identified; the risk is primarily elevated by the unauthenticated, low-complexity network vector.

Authentication Bypass Architectpanel Web Admin Panel
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.2
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Improper access control in the Dokan WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace WordPress plugin before 5.0.14 enables authenticated Shop Managers to install and activate arbitrary WordPress plugins via the Dokan admin REST API. The plugin's capability check on these endpoints validates only for WooCommerce management capability rather than the required Dokan plugin-installation capability, granting Shop Managers an escalated privilege not intended for their role. With publicly available exploit code and a vendor-released patch, this warrants immediate remediation on any WordPress site running Dokan with untrusted shop manager accounts.

WordPress Authentication Bypass Dokan +1
NVD WPScan
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Unauthenticated arbitrary file upload in Datiphy Data Management Center v8.3.0 through v8.5.1 exposes the upload API endpoint without any authentication enforcement, permitting remote attackers to write arbitrary files directly to the server's configured upload directory. The root cause is CWE-306 (Missing Authentication for Critical Function), confirmed by ZUSO ART and registered as ENISA EUVD-2026-63792. The CVSS 4.0 vector scores network-accessible, zero-complexity, unauthenticated exploitation with high integrity and availability impact; no public exploit or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass Data Management Center Datiphy Inc
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH PATCH This Week

SQL injection and authentication bypass in Genians Genian NAC (V4.0, V5.0) and ZTNA (V6.0) expose sensitive backend data to remote unauthenticated attackers via crafted data queries. The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N) confirms exploitation requires no authentication, no user interaction, and no special attack prerequisites, consistent with the authentication bypass tag. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and this CVE is not listed in CISA KEV, though the unauthenticated, low-complexity nature warrants prompt patching across all three product lines.

Authentication Bypass SQLi Genian Nac V4 0 +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.3
CRITICAL Act Now

Authentication bypass in PTC Windchill Risk and Reliability (WRR) Enterprise Edition allows remote attackers to reach critical functionality without valid credentials, per CVSS 4.0 AV:N/PR:N metrics. The flaw stems from missing authentication (CWE-306) and carries a critical 9.3 score with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV.

Authentication Bypass
NVD VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.3
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Unauthenticated account takeover in EverShop (all versions before 2.2.1) stems from the customer update API (PATCH /api/customers/:id) being declared "access": "public", which causes the admin auth middleware to pass every caller through and leaves no customer-session guard on the route. Any remote attacker who knows a customer's uuid can overwrite that account's email and password and read the updated record from the 200 response, hijacking the account and locking out the legitimate owner. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, but the flaw is trivially exploitable and the vendor rates it 9.3 (CVSS 4.0 critical).

Authentication Bypass
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Missing authorization in the Mailu admin REST API allows unauthenticated remote attackers to strip IP-based access restrictions from any existing user token or alter its comment field, effectively neutralizing a key access-control layer on API tokens. All Mailu deployments running versions prior to 2024.06.52 with the admin REST API explicitly enabled are affected. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing is identified at time of analysis, though the network-accessible, zero-authentication attack vector (PR:N, AC:L) makes this straightforward to leverage when the API is reachable.

Authentication Bypass Docker
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Improper authentication in IBM AIX 7.2 and 7.3, and in IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1, allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on affected systems. The flaw carries a critical CVSS 9.8 rating (network-reachable, no privileges or user interaction) and, per IBM's own PSIRT advisory, an authentication bypass can lead to full command execution. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and the CVE is not listed in CISA KEV.

Authentication Bypass IBM Aix +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Remote code execution in IBM AIX 7.2 and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 allows a network-based attacker to run arbitrary code by bypassing authentication (CWE-287). The CVSS 9.8 rating reflects unauthenticated network exploitation with total confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact, though there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV. IBM has released a fix, and the moderate EPSS score (0.69%, 50th percentile) suggests exploitation is plausible but not yet widespread.

Authentication Bypass RCE IBM +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.6
HIGH PATCH Exploit Likely This Week

Microsoft Partner Center exposes cross-tenant information to unauthenticated network attackers via an authorization bypass rooted in user-controlled key manipulation (CWE-639). The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H) indicates low-complexity, scopechanging exploitation that can reach confidential partner or customer data beyond the attacker's own organizational boundary. A vendor-released patch is available through the Microsoft Security Response Center; no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass Microsoft Microsoft Partner Center
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 10.0
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Privilege escalation in Microsoft Azure Arc allows an unauthorized, network-based attacker to bypass authorization checks (CWE-863) and gain elevated privileges over managed hybrid/multicloud resources, with a maximal CVSS 3.1 score of 10.0 driven by a changed scope and high confidentiality/integrity impact. The flaw is reachable remotely without authentication or user interaction (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N), and because scope is changed, exploitation can affect resources beyond the initially vulnerable component. Microsoft has released a fix; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV.

Authentication Bypass Microsoft Azure Arc
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Privilege elevation in Microsoft Azure SQL Database lets an already-authenticated, high-privileged principal escalate its permissions over the network through an improper access-control check (CWE-284). The CVSS scope change (S:C) indicates the abuse crosses an intended trust boundary within the managed service, threatening confidentiality, integrity, and availability. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and the flaw is not in CISA KEV; Microsoft has addressed it server-side per its MSRC advisory.

Authentication Bypass Microsoft Azure Sql Database
NVD VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 10.0
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Privilege elevation in Microsoft Azure Arc allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges over a network by exploiting an incorrectly-resolved name or reference (CWE-706), rated the maximum CVSS 10.0 with a scope change. Reported by Microsoft with a fix available through the MSRC update guide; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV. Note a source conflict: the CVE description cites Azure Arc while the CPE and tags cite Azure Web Apps, so the exact affected surface should be confirmed with Microsoft.

Authentication Bypass Microsoft Azure Web Apps
NVD VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 10.0
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Remote code execution in Microsoft's Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra allows an unauthenticated network attacker to inject additional command-line arguments (CWE-88) into a backend process and execute arbitrary code, per the CVSS:3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C) that indicates no authentication or user interaction and a scope change beyond the vulnerable component. Microsoft reported the issue and has released a fix through MSRC. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis, and the CVE is not currently listed in CISA KEV.

Authentication Bypass Apache Microsoft +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Sensitive information disclosure affects IBM AIX 7.2 and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 via improper authentication (CWE-287), allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to obtain confidential data over the network. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) confirms exploitation requires no credentials and no user interaction, making it trivially reachable from any network-adjacent position. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and CISA KEV does not list this CVE, but the automatable SSVC classification means scripted, mass-scanning attacks are plausible once a technique is known.

Authentication Bypass IBM Aix +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Privilege elevation in Microsoft Azure Data Factory allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges by exploiting improper verification of a cryptographic signature. Tagged as a JWT/authentication-bypass issue, the flaw lets an attacker forge or tamper with signed tokens that the service fails to validate correctly, defeating access controls over the network. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the EPSS probability is low (0.28%), but the CVSS 9.8 rating reflects total technical impact if exploited.

Authentication Bypass Microsoft Jwt Attack +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Session hijacking in BigBlueButton prior to version 3.0.23 enables authenticated meeting participants to impersonate other active attendees by supplying a target's existingUserID to the inadvertently exposed /bigbluebutton/api/handleJoinExistingUser HTTP endpoint. The root cause is a Grails framework visibility error: the handleJoinExistingUser method was declared with def (public, routable) instead of private, making it directly callable over the network without authorization validation - allowing full session reuse without the target's credentials. No CISA KEV listing or public exploit code has been identified, but the low attack complexity and authenticated-participant attack surface make this a credible threat in active BigBlueButton deployments, particularly in education environments where meeting roles carry meaningful trust.

Authentication Bypass Bigbluebutton
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Authentication bypass in Centrifugo real-time messaging server before 6.9.0 lets a remote client spoof trusted proxy headers by populating the client-controlled protocol.ConnectRequest.headers map, which Centrifugo copies and forwards to backend proxies as trusted headers or gRPC metadata. When a backend relies on a header such as x-trusted-user for authentication or authorization, an attacker can impersonate arbitrary users across connect, refresh, subscribe, publish, and RPC proxy calls. Rated CVSS 9.1 (high confidentiality and integrity impact); there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV.

Authentication Bypass Centrifugo Centrifugal
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Incorrect authorization in Chrome's Workers implementation allows a remote attacker to bypass the web origin policy and gain unauthorized access to cross-origin data and resources. Exploitation requires a chained attack: the attacker must first compromise the Chrome renderer process through a separate vulnerability, then use social engineering to get the victim to interact with a crafted HTML page. Google has released Chrome 151.0.7922.173 to address this flaw; no public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis, and SSVC signals exploitation:none with a low EPSS of 0.34%.

Authentication Bypass Google
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.9
CRITICAL Act Now

Privilege escalation and cluster-wide arbitrary resource deployment affects the multicloud-operators-subscription component of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2. A low-privileged tenant permitted to create HelmRelease custom resources can abuse the HelmRelease controller, which renders and applies Helm chart templates using its own elevated ServiceAccount, to deploy arbitrary resources anywhere in the cluster and bypass namespace/RBAC boundaries. Rated CVSS 9.9 with a scope change; no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV.

Authentication Bypass Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management For Kubernetes 2 Red Hat
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.6
HIGH PATCH This Week

Write operations in Laravel Backpack CRUD bypass registered query scopes on Update, Delete, and Reorder paths, enabling any authenticated low-privilege user to modify or delete arbitrary records outside their authorized scope. Versions 6.x before 6.8.14 and 7.x before 7.0.38 of the Composer package backpack/crud are affected when the application uses addBaseClause() or addClause() for row-level access control such as multi-tenancy or per-user data isolation. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis, but the trivially guessable nature of sequential primary keys makes cross-tenant record manipulation straightforward for any authenticated session holder.

Authentication Bypass
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.7
HIGH PATCH This Week

Authentication bypass and token replay in node-opcua's UserNameIdentityToken handler enables unauthenticated remote attackers to authenticate as any user whose account accepts an empty password, and to replay captured session tokens unconditionally across unrelated sessions. Versions up to and including 2.165.0 of the npm package are affected. The vulnerability is compounded when SecurityMode=None is configured, which causes the channel-level signature verification to return true unconditionally. A proof-of-concept attack sequence has been dynamically confirmed by the reporter; no vendor-released patch has been identified at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass Jwt Attack
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.2
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

HTTP request smuggling and header injection in libevent's http.c allow remote unauthenticated attackers to desynchronize an upstream proxy from libevent's own parsing, bypassing access controls. Affected are all versions prior to 2.1.13-stable and 2.2.2-alpha, where evhttp_header_is_valid_value accepted obsolete CRLF line folding in header values and evhttp_decode_uri_internal decoded %00 into literal NUL bytes that truncate paths in downstream C string operations. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; the CRLF weakness is patched in 2.1.13/2.2.2-alpha, but the URI NUL-truncation condition is not clearly remediated by the reviewed patches.

Authentication Bypass Request Smuggling
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.9
CRITICAL Act Now

Improper access control in Lighthouse - the cross-cluster service-discovery component of Submariner shipped with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 - lets an attacker who has compromised a spoke cluster inject unauthorized EndpointSlices and ServiceImports into arbitrary namespaces on peer clusters. Because the destination namespace is taken from an attacker-controlled label/annotation on the broker object, resources can be planted into privileged namespaces such as kube-system and openshift-*, enabling privilege escalation and lateral cluster compromise. Rated CVSS 9.9 with a scope change; no public exploit identified at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management For Kubernetes 2 +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.2
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

HTTP request smuggling in the libevent evhttp server (http.c) affects all versions prior to 2.1.13 and the 2.2.x-alpha line prior to 2.2.2-alpha, letting an unauthenticated remote attacker desynchronize request boundaries when libevent sits behind a differently-framing proxy. Because evhttp mishandles duplicate and comma-listed Transfer-Encoding headers and accepts bare-LF chunk terminators, a smuggled second request can bypass proxy-enforced access controls or poison shared caches. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and this is not listed in CISA KEV; a vendor patch is available.

Authentication Bypass Request Smuggling Libevent
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

TLS hostname verification bypass in Cesanta Mongoose's built-in TLS stack (versions prior to 7.22) lets an on-path attacker holding a wildcard certificate for a parent domain impersonate arbitrarily deep subdomains, defeating certificate validation for clients that use the embedded TLS backend. The flaw stems from mg_match() wildcards crossing DNS label boundaries, so *.example.com wrongly matches foo.bar.example.com. A vendor patch exists in 7.22, but no public exploit identified at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass Mongoose Cesanta
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

HTTP request smuggling in Cesanta Mongoose embedded web server/network library before 7.22 lets a remote unauthenticated attacker desynchronize an HTTP/1.0 reverse-proxy front-end from the Mongoose back-end. A buggy length check in http_cb() (src/http.c) never sets is_http_1_0, so Mongoose honors Transfer-Encoding: chunked framing that an HTTP/1.0 proxy ignores, allowing the attacker to smuggle requests past the proxy and reach unauthorized functionality or alter application state. Rated CVSS 9.1; a vendor patch exists (7.22), but no public exploit and no EPSS/KEV data were provided at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass Red Hat Request Smuggling +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL Act Now

Authentication bypass via SAML assertion replay affects Samly, the Elixir/Plug SAML 2.0 Service Provider library from Dropbox, in all releases from v0.3.0 onward. Because Samly.Helper.decode_idp_auth_resp/3 invokes esaml's validate_assertion with a no-op duplicate detector and exposes no way to supply a real one, a bearer assertion is never enforced as single-use; an attacker who captures a single valid SAMLResponse can resubmit the identical bytes to repeatedly log in as that assertion's subject until its NotOnOrAfter expires. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the flaw is not listed in CISA KEV.

Authentication Bypass Dropbox Samly +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Authentication bypass in the dbx-web backend of the dbx database client (all versions prior to 0.5.51) lets unauthenticated network attackers reach protected API routes. When DBX_PASSWORD is unset and no stored password exists, auth_middleware treats a None password_hash as 'allow everything' and forwards every request to the handler chain, while the service listens on 0.0.0.0:4224 by default. Attackers can invoke /api/connection/connect and /api/query/execute to abuse configured database credentials and run arbitrary SQL. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, but the fix is confirmed in release v0.5.51 and the root cause is visible in the published commit.

Authentication Bypass Dbx
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

Rate-limit bypass in Monkeytype ≤ 26.26.0 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to neutralize all request throttling protections by rotating client-controlled `cf-connecting-ip` or `x-forwarded-for` HTTP headers, with each rotated value creating an independent rate-limit bucket and resetting the window. The affected middleware in `backend/src/middlewares/rate-limit.ts` trusts these client-supplied headers over Express's trust-proxy-derived `req.ip`, rendering `rootRateLimiter`, `badAuthRateLimiter`, `getKey()`, and `getKeyWithUid()` ineffective. Practical consequences include mail-bombing registered users via the `/users/forgotPasswordEmail` and `verificationEmail` endpoints, exhausting Firebase or SMTP quotas affecting all users, and evading brute-force credential protections. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis; no fixed version is available.

Authentication Bypass Denial Of Service Monkeytype
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Unauthenticated remote code execution in OSNEXUS QuantaStor lets network-based attackers run arbitrary code as root by abusing an insecurely configured Kapacitor service that exposes functionality with no authentication check. ZDI (ZDI-26-480, ZDI-CAN-30036) rates it CVSS 9.8; no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and it is not currently listed in CISA KEV.

Authentication Bypass RCE Quantastor +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.4
HIGH This Week

WildFly Elytron's password hashing and verification subsystem silently normalizes Unicode input via NFKC before hashing, collapsing fullwidth characters (e.g., U+FF21 'A') to their ASCII equivalents (e.g., 'A'). This allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to authenticate against accounts whose owners believed their passwords contained unique non-ASCII characters by submitting a standard ASCII-only dictionary - the normalization makes the stored hash indistinguishable from its ASCII equivalent. Affected deployments span Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 and 8, Red Hat Build of Keycloak, Red Hat Data Grid 8, and several other Red Hat middleware products that share the Elytron security layer. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass Red Hat Build Of Keycloak Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform 8 +8
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation on IBM AIX 7.2/7.3 and PowerVM VIOS 4.1 allows any low-privileged local user to gain full system control by exploiting improper authorization checks (CWE-285). SSVC rates the technical impact as total, consistent with the CVSS C:H/I:H/A:H rating, meaning a successful attacker achieves complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and EPSS at 0.13% (3rd percentile) reflects negligible current exploitation pressure, though the low attack complexity makes this a meaningful insider-threat or post-compromise escalation risk.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation IBM +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Insecure direct object reference in WeGIA's employee profile page allows any authenticated low-privileged user to enumerate and retrieve full employee records belonging to other accounts. Affected versions are all WeGIA releases before 3.9.2. Exploitation exposes sensitive PII - including CPF numbers, addresses, contact details, and administrative flags - for every employee record in the system. No public exploit code or active exploitation confirmed at time of analysis; a vendor-released patch is available.

Authentication Bypass
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.6
HIGH PATCH This Week

Password change authorization bypass in WeGIA before 3.9.2 allows any authenticated user to permanently take over their own account - or one they hold temporary session access to - without supplying the existing password. The `alterarSenha` method is unconditionally excluded from permission checks in `controle/control.php`, and manipulating the `redir` parameter routes password-change requests through `verificarSenhaConfig()` rather than the credential-verifying `verificarSenha()`, stripping the old-password requirement entirely. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, though the mechanically simple parameter manipulation lowers the practical bar significantly.

PHP Authentication Bypass Wegia +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Authentication bypass in Baylan Smart Meter Management Application (BMS) before v1.1.10.142 lets remote unauthenticated attackers reach a critical function that lacks any authentication check (CWE-306), granting full control over smart-meter management operations. The flaw was reported by Turkey's national CSIRT (TR-CERT/USOM) and carries a CVSS 9.8, reflecting network-reachable, no-privilege access with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and it is not listed in CISA KEV.

Authentication Bypass Baylan Smart Meter Management Application Bms
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

Broken access control in the Koji WordPress theme (versions 2.2.1 and earlier) allows unauthenticated remote attackers to access content or functionality that should be restricted, resulting in high confidentiality impact. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N) confirms exploitation requires no credentials, no special configuration, and no user interaction. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and the vulnerability does not appear in CISA's KEV catalog, though the Patchstack disclosure confirms the flaw exists in the released theme.

WordPress Authentication Bypass Koji +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.1
HIGH This Week

Broken access control in the EPROLO Dropshipping WordPress plugin (versions <= 2.4.2) allows network-based attackers to bypass authorization checks and access restricted functionality without proper permission validation. The CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) root cause means the plugin fails to verify whether a requestor has rights to perform certain actions, enabling high-impact confidentiality exposure (C:H) and limited integrity impact (I:L). No public exploit code or active KEV listing is identified at time of analysis, though the unauthenticated nature of the bypass - per the CVE title - makes this accessible to a wide attacker pool.

WordPress Authentication Bypass Wordpress Plugin +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

Broken access control in the Chaplin WordPress theme (versions <= 2.6.8) allows unauthenticated remote attackers to access restricted content, resulting in high confidentiality impact. The flaw, classified as CWE-862 (Missing Authorization), means the theme fails to verify whether a requesting user holds the necessary permissions before granting access to protected resources. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis, but the low-complexity, no-authentication-required attack surface makes this straightforward to exploit against any exposed WordPress installation running a vulnerable version of the theme.

WordPress Authentication Bypass Chaplin +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.4
HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in n8n's custom project role management allows users holding only the narrow `role:manageProject` global scope to seize full administrative control over arbitrary projects across the entire instance. The root cause is a missing project-level authorization check in the role deletion-with-reassignment code path: the API validates only that the reassignment target role exists and is project-scoped, never verifying that the requesting user has any rights over the affected projects or their members. No public exploit has been identified and no CISA KEV listing exists at time of analysis; patches are confirmed available in versions 2.33.4 and 2.34.1.

Authentication Bypass N8n N8N Io
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.1
HIGH This Week

FreeIPA's Kerberos Ticket Granting Service fails to verify Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC) signatures when processing cross-realm tickets from a trusted Active Directory domain, allowing any authenticated AD user to impersonate arbitrary FreeIPA principals. This grants unauthorized elevated access to FreeIPA services including the web portal, SMB server, and LDAP directory. No active exploitation is confirmed (not in CISA KEV; SSVC Exploitation: none), though SSVC rates technical impact as total and CVSS scores 8.1 - the gap reflects the non-default trust configuration prerequisite that limits real-world exposure.

Authentication Bypass Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 +4
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH This Week

Unauthenticated file disclosure in the Frauscher FDS 102 Field Detection System web interface exposes sensitive railway operational data - including full backup archives and configuration files - to any network-reachable attacker via direct HTTP GET requests. The affected endpoints at /FdsBackup.zip and the /downloads/* directory serve files without session validation, a violation of CWE-306 (Missing Authentication for Critical Function). No CISA KEV listing or public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, but the trivial exploitability - no credentials, no complexity, no user interaction - makes this a high-priority exposure for any railway operator with network-accessible FDS 102 deployments.

Authentication Bypass Fds 102 Frauscher Sensortechnik
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.5
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in Frauscher FDS 102 (versions 2.11.0 through 2.13.3) allows a low-privileged authenticated attacker to create new user accounts with arbitrary role values - including the application's highest privilege level - by submitting a crafted request to the PHP endpoint /api/user/add.php. The user creation API fails to enforce authorization on the role parameter (CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization), permitting authenticated non-admins to self-elevate or plant backdoor admin accounts. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis, but the CVSS 4.0 vector indicates high subsequent-system impact (SC:H/SI:H/SA:H), consistent with this being an OT/industrial railway platform where administrative access can affect connected field devices.

PHP Authentication Bypass Fds 102 +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Unauthorized cross-user data access and deletion in Splunk AI Toolkit below 6.0.0 allows any authenticated user holding the 'power' Splunk role to read and destroy experiment history records belonging to other users. The root cause is CWE-639 (IDOR): the toolkit fails to preserve a trusted experiment scope boundary when processing caller-controlled query values, enabling horizontal privilege escalation across all experiment history without touching admin-level permissions. No active exploitation or public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis; a vendor-released patch (6.0.0) is available per Splunk advisory SVD-2026-0808.

Authentication Bypass Splunk Splunk Ai Toolkit
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.3
HIGH PATCH This Week

Missing authorization checks across multiple REST API handlers in Splunk AI Toolkit versions below 6.0.0 allow any low-privileged authenticated Splunk user - one who holds neither the 'admin' nor 'power' role - to start, stop, and reconfigure containers and to read or modify sensitive connection and configuration data. The vulnerability stems from CWE-862 (Missing Authorization), where the REST endpoints simply omit role-based access enforcement rather than incorrectly implementing it. No public exploit code and no CISA KEV listing have been identified at time of analysis, but the low attack complexity and the fact that it was reported by Cisco make it a credible near-term target.

Authentication Bypass Splunk Splunk Ai Toolkit
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.3
HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in Splunk AI Toolkit before 6.0.0 allows any authenticated low-privileged user to operate with system-level permissions by exploiting a session key substitution flaw in the Agent Run History handler. The handler unconditionally replaces the caller's session key with a system authentication token before executing searches, completely bypassing Splunk's role-based access controls that gate elevated operations behind 'admin' or 'power' roles. This grants unauthorized read access to all indexed data, cross-user search job enumeration and deletion, and write-level system integrity impact - no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, but the low exploitation complexity and clear mechanism description make this a high-priority patching target for Splunk enterprise deployments.

Authentication Bypass Splunk Splunk Ai Toolkit
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Remote code execution in Splunk SOAR versions below 8.6.0 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on the SOAR host by exploiting the Automation Broker's blind trust of client-supplied IP address headers. The Automation Broker accepts a forged source-IP header as proof that a notification endpoint request originates from the local system (CWE-290), bypassing all authentication. Successful exploitation grants full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact on the SOAR host; no public exploit is identified at time of analysis, but the vendor has released a patch in version 8.6.0.

Authentication Bypass RCE Splunk +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Unauthenticated remote disclosure of Edge Processor pipeline configurations in Splunk Enterprise 10.4.x exposes potentially sensitive data-processing logic to any network-accessible attacker. The REST API endpoint serving Edge Processor configuration lacks authentication controls (CWE-306), meaning any unauthenticated actor can retrieve pipeline details when the Edge Processor feature is enabled. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the flaw is restricted to the 10.4.x branch - prior versions are unaffected.

Authentication Bypass Splunk Splunk Enterprise
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in Splunk Enterprise allows any authenticated low-privileged user to create or modify scripted lookups through improperly guarded generic transforms configuration endpoints, gaining code execution under the Splunk service account's operating system permissions. Affected versions span four release branches: 9.4.x below 9.4.14, 10.0.x below 10.0.9, 10.2.x below 10.2.6, and 10.4.x below 10.4.2. An attacker holding any valid Splunk account - without requiring the 'admin' or 'power' roles - can abuse this to access all Splunk-indexed data and compromise system integrity and availability. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass Splunk Splunk Enterprise
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Authentication bypass in Splunk Enterprise across multiple supported version branches allows an attacker who has obtained a trusted distributed search private key to forge administrative session tokens entirely over the network. Affected versions span 9.4.x below 9.4.14, 10.0.x below 10.0.9, 10.2.x below 10.2.6, and 10.4.x below 10.4.2. Once a forged token is accepted, the attacker gains full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact equivalent to an administrator - including access to all indexed data and the ability to disrupt search services. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing exists at time of analysis; this was reported by Cisco, suggesting coordinated disclosure from security research.

Authentication Bypass Splunk Splunk Enterprise
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Insufficient authorization in Splunk Enterprise's SPL2 module management REST API allows any authenticated low-privileged user - one without the 'admin' or 'power' role - to delete all SPL2 modules across every app and user on the instance. Affected versions are 10.2.x through 10.2.5 and 10.4.x through 10.4.1; versions below 10.2 are unaffected as SPL2 module management did not exist there. The resulting impact is high integrity loss (permanent deletion of exported datasets and functions) and partial service disruption, with no patch-confirmed active exploitation at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass Splunk Splunk Enterprise
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

SPL injection in Splunk Enterprise exposes all indexed data and compromises search integrity for any low-privileged authenticated user. Specifically, users without the 'admin' or 'power' role can inject Search Processing Language commands into saved-search dispatch requests by supplying malicious time values that Splunk Enterprise fails to validate. Patch versions have been released across all supported branches; no public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass Splunk Nosql Injection +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.3
HIGH PATCH This Week

SPL injection in Splunk Enterprise's Job Details dashboard enables a low-privileged authenticated attacker to bypass Search Processing Language risky-command safeguards by embedding a malicious search identifier in a crafted dashboard URL and phishing an authenticated victim into opening it. The injected SPL executes under the victim's permissions, potentially exposing all data accessible to that user and compromising search integrity within those bounds. No active exploitation is confirmed and no public exploit code has been identified; a vendor patch is available across all four affected release trains per advisory SVD-2026-0801.

Authentication Bypass Splunk Splunk Enterprise
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

Dashboard Studio in Splunk Enterprise (below versions 9.4.14, 10.0.9, 10.2.6, and 10.4.2) allows a low-privileged 'user'-role account to inject attacker-controlled SPL queries that execute within the authenticated session of a different, potentially higher-privileged victim user. The root cause is Dashboard Studio's failure to consistently enforce app-visibility authorization boundaries before search query options reach the search dispatch layer - a CWE-862 Missing Authorization defect. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been confirmed; a vendor patch is available across all affected branches.

Authentication Bypass Splunk Splunk Enterprise
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Remote code execution in Splunk Enterprise allows any low-privileged authenticated user to execute arbitrary code by exploiting a missing authorization check in the Federated Search dispatch flow. The vulnerability stems from the platform accepting caller-controlled bundle selection without verifying the fsh_manage capability, meaning any user with basic login access can escalate to full RCE. All four active version branches (9.4.x, 10.0.x, 10.2.x, 10.4.x) are affected below their respective patch thresholds; no public exploit or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass RCE Splunk +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Remote code execution in Splunk Enterprise allows any authenticated low-privilege user (without admin or power roles) to upload a malicious knowledge bundle via the REST API and force distributed search to execute it across search peers, achieving full C/I/A compromise. The root cause is a missing authorization check - the REST API endpoint for knowledge bundle uploads does not enforce the required edit_dist_peer capability, and distributed search blindly honors caller-supplied bundle selections. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis, but the low authentication bar (any valid Splunk account suffices) and network-accessible attack surface make this a high-priority patching target in enterprise environments.

Authentication Bypass RCE Splunk +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.4
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Session material exposure in Splunk Enterprise (versions below 10.4.1, 10.2.6, 10.0.9, and 9.4.14) allows an unauthenticated attacker who can view the HTML source of any page that embeds a Splunk report to harvest session credentials and reach the underlying search data with high confidentiality and integrity impact. The flaw stems from the dispatch archive download path failing to enforce the embedded-report authorization boundary, so archived search-job data carries sensitive session material. Rated CVSS 9.4 and reported by Cisco; no public exploit is identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV.

Authentication Bypass Splunk Splunk Enterprise
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.4
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Improper access control in Splunk Enterprise (versions below 10.4.2, 10.2.6, 10.0.9, and 9.4.14) allows a party holding only an embedded report token to download the dispatch archive of an embedded report's search job, exposing session material that grants access to sensitive data and the ability to affect platform integrity. The embedded-report authorization flow fails to block dispatch-archive download requests before the archive begins streaming, so the check is effectively bypassed (CWE-284). No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, but the 9.4 CVSS score and unauthenticated network vector make this a high-priority patch.

Authentication Bypass Splunk Splunk Enterprise
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.4
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Improper access control in Splunk Enterprise (versions below 10.4.2, 10.2.6, 10.0.9, and 9.4.14) lets anyone holding an embedded report token download the underlying search job's dispatch archive over the REST API, recover session material, and impersonate the report owner. Because embedded reports are designed to be shared with unauthenticated viewers, an attacker can read all data the owner can access and, if the owner holds the admin role, perform administrative actions. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis, but the CVSS 9.4 rating and unauthenticated network vector make this high priority.

Authentication Bypass Splunk Splunk Enterprise
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.3
HIGH PATCH This Week

The Data Model Editor in Splunk Enterprise fails to apply SPL safeguards for risky commands when executing base searches for auto-extracted fields, allowing a low-privileged attacker (non-admin, non-power role) to craft a malicious request that executes arbitrary SPL commands under a victim's authenticated session via browser-based phishing. Affected branches span four active release lines - 9.4.x below 9.4.13, 10.0.x below 10.0.8, 10.2.x below 10.2.6, and 10.4.x below 10.4.1 - confirmed by vendor advisory SVD-2026-0801. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis; vendor patches are available for all affected branches.

Authentication Bypass Splunk Splunk Enterprise
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Missing authorization in the Splunk App for Splunk Observability Cloud exposes a stored Observability Cloud access token to any authenticated Splunk user lacking the admin or power role. Affected versions of Splunk Enterprise (below 10.4.2, 10.2.6, and 10.0.9) ship REST API endpoint handlers in the Observability Cloud integration app that fail to enforce the read_o11y_content capability before proxying requests - and the stored token - to Splunk Observability Cloud. Exploitation gives the low-privileged user full read access to all data visible to that token and limited write access to Observability Cloud content. No public exploit or KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass Splunk Splunk Enterprise
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL POC PATCH Act Now

Mutual-TLS authentication bypass in the Netty network framework (io.netty.handler.ssl.SslClientHelloHandler) lets an unauthenticated remote attacker reach routes protected only by per-SNI clientAuth=REQUIRE. A ClientHello whose 4-byte handshake header is split across TLS records trips a wrong-offset bounds check, throwing IndexOutOfBoundsException and calling select(ctx, null), which falls back to the default SslContext (clientAuth NONE/OPTIONAL) instead of the SNI-matched context. Fixed in 4.1.137.Final and 4.2.17.Final; no public exploit identified at time of analysis, but the CVSS 4.0 base score is 9.1 (Critical).

Authentication Bypass Netty
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.0
HIGH This Week

The acm-operator-bundle build pipeline within Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 fetches and executes a remote script without any cryptographic integrity or authenticity verification (CWE-829), exposing privileged build credentials - including GitHub access tokens and container registry passwords - to attacker-controlled code. An adversary able to compromise the remote script host or intercept the fetch in transit can inject arbitrary code that runs inside the privileged build environment and poisons the resulting operator bundle, extending the blast radius to downstream Kubernetes clusters that consume it (CVSS S:C). No public exploit code has been identified and CISA has not listed this in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, but the credential-theft and supply-chain propagation potential make this a high-priority finding for organizations actively running ACM 2.x build pipelines.

Authentication Bypass Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management For Kubernetes 2 Red Hat
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.6
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Cross-user SSH credential disclosure in Termix, a self-hosted web server-management platform, allows an authenticated low-privileged user to steal another user's stored SSH password or private key. The terminal WebSocket trusts a user-supplied hostConfig.id, and the host resolver falls back to the host owner's credentials without an ownership or access check, then pairs that credential with the attacker's own ip/port/username so Termix authenticates to an attacker-controlled SSH server and leaks the secret. Fixed in 2.3.2; no public exploit identified at time of analysis, though a detailed advisory and patch commit make the flaw well understood.

Authentication Bypass Termix Termix Ssh
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.6
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Broken authorization in Termix (self-hosted web-based SSH/server management platform) before 2.6.1 lets any authenticated user retrieve other users' stored SSH and sudo passwords in plaintext. The GET /host/db/host/:id/password endpoint resolves credentials without enforcing host ownership, so an attacker with a valid JWT can enumerate sequential numeric host IDs and harvest credentials belonging to other tenants. Rated CVSS 9.6 (scope-changed) because the leaked credentials grant control of the external systems Termix manages; no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and it is not in CISA KEV.

Authentication Bypass Termix Termix Ssh
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Unauthorized data exposure in Termix prior to 2.3.2 allows a low-privileged authenticated user to exfiltrate password-reset tokens belonging to other local accounts via the POST /database/export endpoint, enabling full account takeover of any local user including administrators. The database export is intended to be user-scoped but incorrectly includes the global settings table, which stores transient reset_code_ and temp_reset_token_ artifacts from incomplete or historical password-reset flows. With CVSS 8.8 (PR:L, C:H/I:H/A:H) and a public GitHub advisory, this represents a high-severity privilege escalation path in deployments where multiple user accounts exist. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; vendor-released patch is available.

Authentication Bypass Termix Termix Ssh
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Image policy bypass in IBM Portieris 0.5.0 through 0.14.2 allows remote authenticated attackers to circumvent container image verification controls by exploiting improper authorization of pod owner references (CWE-862). An attacker with low-privilege Kubernetes cluster access can deploy containers from untrusted or unverified images, effectively nullifying the admission controller's entire security enforcement purpose. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, but a vendor patch is available via IBM's security advisory.

Authentication Bypass IBM Portieris
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.2
HIGH PATCH This Week

Remote unauthenticated manipulation of network traffic and DNS configuration is possible in IBM AIX 7.2 and 7.3, as well as IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1, due to improper authentication controls (CWE-287). The CVSS 8.2 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) confirms exploitation requires no credentials, no user interaction, and no special network positioning - making this accessible to any remote attacker with TCP connectivity to an affected system. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and CISA KEV listing has not been confirmed, but the low attack complexity and high integrity impact make this a meaningful priority for IBM Power Systems environments.

Authentication Bypass IBM Aix +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.9
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Privilege escalation to administrative API access in Etherpad 2.1.0 through 3.0.x lets any authenticated non-admin OAuth user invoke instance-wide admin functions. The flaw is a broken authorization check in the /api/2/* handler that treats the mere presence of the admin claim as sufficient, ignoring that OAuth2Provider issues admin: false for non-admin users. Rated CVSS 9.9 with a scope change; no public exploit identified at time of analysis, but the fix is straightforward to reverse-engineer from the public patch.

Authentication Bypass Etherpad Ether
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.1
HIGH This Week

Race condition in the authentication handler (`check.jst`) of RDK-B WebUI rdkb-2025q4-kirkstone allows remote unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication by submitting concurrent login requests that exploit unsynchronized shared authentication state. Successful exploitation grants full administrative access to the broadband gateway device with high impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and EPSS scoring at 0.21% (12th percentile) reflects low observed exploitation activity despite the severity of the authentication bypass.

Authentication Bypass Race Condition Rdk B Webui +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Authentication bypass in the RDK-B WebUI (broadband gateway management interface), build rdkb-2025q4-kirkstone.04.10.26, lets a remote unauthenticated attacker gain full administrative access by presenting a forged JWT whose RSA signature is invalid. The flaw lives in the signature-verification logic of jst_functions.c, which accepts tokens without properly validating the RSA signature. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis and EPSS is low (0.19%), but the CVSS 9.8 rating and trivial exploitation path make it a high-priority patch for exposed devices.

Authentication Bypass Jwt Attack Rdk B Webui +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in XWiki Platform's Live Data Live Table Connector allows any authenticated user with edit access to a page to elevate themselves to script right by sending crafted requests to the Live Data REST API. Script right in XWiki permits execution of arbitrary Velocity code and injection of unfiltered HTML and JavaScript into page content, enabling stored XSS against other users and bypassing extension-level security listeners. The vulnerability spans a wide version range from 13.4-rc-1 through 18.0.x, and no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.7
HIGH PATCH This Week

Unauthenticated remote code execution in ICEcoder 8.1 allows any network-reachable attacker to run arbitrary OS commands as the web-server user by exploiting a three-weakness chain in the terminal endpoint: an authentication bypass triggered by supplying a password parameter, a CSRF skip triggered by any non-empty csrf value, and unsanitized command passthrough directly into PHP's proc_open(). The attack requires a single crafted HTTP POST request and no prior credentials. A public proof-of-concept appears available via a GitHub Gist reference in the VulnCheck advisory. No active exploitation is confirmed by CISA KEV at the time of this analysis.

Authentication Bypass RCE CSRF +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.9
HIGH PATCH This Week

IBM Power Systems Firmware across three firmware branches exposes a privilege escalation path across the BMC/FSP-to-host boundary, allowing an attacker already holding service account or root credentials on the Flexible Service Processor to read and disrupt host processor state, cascading impact to all logical partitions (LPARs) hosted on the managed system. The scope change confirmed in the CVSS vector (S:C) distinguishes this from a typical local privilege issue: exploitation crosses the management-plane isolation barrier and can affect production workloads running on every partition. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Authentication Bypass IBM Power Systems Firmware
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Remote privilege escalation in Ceph RADOS Gateway (RGW) allows any holder of a valid STS session token - regardless of privilege level - to forge administrative credentials by exploiting unauthenticated AES-128-CBC encryption. By applying a deterministic CBC bit-flip to the acct_type, perm_type, and is_admin fields of their own token, an attacker can trigger a global authorization override that bypasses all RGW capability checks, yielding full administrative control over all objects and buckets in the cluster. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis; however, the attack is self-contained, requires no encryption oracle, and is reachable over the standard RGW S3 endpoint, making it highly accessible to any user with STS access. Fixed versions 19.2.6 and 20.2.4 are confirmed released.

Authentication Bypass Oracle
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL Act Now

Improper authorization in the Ceph Monitor subscription handler lets any authenticated CephX user holding only `mon allow r` read the entire config-key (kv) store by sending a single crafted MMonSubscribe message, affecting Ceph releases prior to 20.2.4 (Squid) and 19.2.6 (Reef). Because that store holds OSD LUKS disk-encryption passphrases and, on cephadm-managed clusters, the SSH private key cephadm uses to reach every host as root, a low-privileged read-only account can escalate to full cluster and host compromise. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, though the vendor fix includes a QA reproduction test exercising the kv: subscription path.

Authentication Bypass
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH PATCH This Week

Improper authorization in Akaunting 3.1.21's BulkActions dispatcher allows authenticated low-privilege users to perform bulk operations beyond their intended access scope, potentially exposing or modifying financial records belonging to other users or organizational entities within the platform. Discovered and reported by Fluid Attacks, the flaw resides in a shared dispatcher component used across multiple modules of this open-source web-based accounting application. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and a vendor-released patch is available in version 3.2.1.

Authentication Bypass Akaunting
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.6
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Authentication bypass in IBM Power Systems Firmware (FW1120.00, FW1110.00-FW1110.30, FW1060.00-FW1060.80, FW950.00-FW950.H2) lets an unauthenticated attacker positioned on the Flexible Service Processor (FSP) management network assume full administrative control of the managed system. An attacker can manipulate partition power state, alter configuration, and access partition consoles across every hosted LPAR, yielding complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the flaw is not on CISA KEV, but the 9.6 CVSS and scope-changing impact make it a high-priority patch for datacenters running IBM Power hardware.

Authentication Bypass IBM Power Systems Firmware
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Full takeover of IBM Power Systems host partitions and all hosted logical partitions (LPARs) is achievable by any actor holding service account or root credentials on the BMC or FSP management controller across multiple IBM Power firmware generations. The flaw (CWE-863, Incorrect Authorization) permits writing arbitrary data to hardware control registers via the BMC/FSP-to-host interface, collapsing the security boundary between the out-of-band management plane and every workload running on the system. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and the vulnerability is absent from CISA KEV; IBM has released a firmware patch via support advisory 7283218.

Authentication Bypass IBM Power Systems Firmware
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.2
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Arbitrary code execution on IBM Power Systems host is achievable by any attacker who already holds service account or root access to the BMC or FSP management controller. The vulnerability resides in the interface layer between the BMC/FSP and the host, where missing authorization checks (CWE-862) allow an authenticated BMC-level principal to cross the trust boundary and execute code with full host-system privileges. All hosted logical partitions are consequently exposed, making this a critical lateral-movement and privilege-escalation path within IBM Power infrastructure. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.

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