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Cisco Identity Services Engine Authorization Bypass Vulnerabilities

Cisco fixed authorization bypass flaws in ISE and ISE-PIC web management letting authenticated admins modify file descriptions via crafted HTTP requests.

Multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based management interface of Cisco Identity Services Engine and ISE Passive Identity Connector result from missing server-side validation of Administrator permissions. An authenticated remote attacker with valid Administrator credentials can submit crafted HTTP requests to modify descriptions of files on specific pages. Cisco has released software updates addressing the issues.

Critical ScreenConnect flaw now actively exploited in attacks

CISA confirms active exploitation of critical ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaw CVE-2026-84869, ordering federal agencies to mitigate within three days.

ConnectWise's ScreenConnect flaw CVE-2026-84869, an improper privilege management and missing authorization bug, lets attackers with basic privileges transfer or execute files through active remote sessions in low-complexity attacks without user interaction. It is patched in ScreenConnect 26.6.5; CISA added it to the KEV catalog and ordered US federal agencies to secure systems within three days. Shadowserver tracks over 1,000 unpatched exposed instances, mostly in North America (758) and Europe (180). This is the fourth actively exploited ScreenConnect flaw since 2024; earlier issues were abused by Kimsuky and ransomware gangs.

BleepingComputerupdated · 6h agofirst · 10h agoExploit / PoC in the wild 4 sourcesCVE-2026-84869CVE-2024-1709CVE-2025-3935+1 CVEs1

CVE-2026-75030: Apache Syncope: Incomplete authorization checks for Group members deprovisioning

Apache Syncope patches missing authorization checks (CVE-2026-75030) in Group members deprovisioning that administrators can abuse.

CVE-2026-75030 is a moderate-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Apache Syncope's Group members deprovisioning logic (syncope-core-idrepo-logic). An administrator with task execution permissions can bypass the incomplete authorization checks. Affected versions include 3.0.0-M0 through 3.0.16, 4.0.0-M0 through 4.0.7, and 4.1.0-M0 through 4.1.2.

oss-security · 2d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-750301

VU#889462: Casdoor authentication server is vulnerable to authorization bypass

Casdoor IAM versions 3.115.0 and earlier allow organization admins to bypass tenant isolation through inconsistent authorization checks, tracked as CVE-2026-15630.

CERT/CC published VU#889462 describing an authorization bypass in Casdoor, an open-source access management platform, affecting versions 3.115.0 and earlier. The flaw (CVE-2026-15630) stems from controllers ignoring the ?id= query parameter used for authorization decisions and acting on JSON body fields instead, letting a single-organization administrator perform unauthorized administrative actions against arbitrary organizations in multi-tenant deployments. Impact can escalate to complete tenant-isolation compromise and potential compromise of the entire Casdoor instance, including SSO/SAML disruption. No vendor patch is available because researchers could not reach Casdoor; mitigations include least privilege, MFA for admin accounts, and alerting on cross-organization administrative activity.

ResidualAuth: What Authorization State Must Language Agents Preserve under Revocable Delegation?

Formalizes residual authorization state language agents must preserve under revocable delegation; token-budget summaries mostly fail while hard gates stop unauthorized effects.

The paper shows two authorization histories with identical current permissions can require opposite decisions after the same direct-edge revocation, formalizing the needed information as residual authorization state. Exponentially many future-distinct states can share one transitive closure, with exact or tight asymptotic bounds on the state an exact monitor requires. Across four open-weight models, fixed 256-token summaries solved at most 2 of 16 paired episodes while authenticated current-query reads solved 15-16 of 16. A hard effect gate reduced eight observed unauthorized effects to zero without changing preceding attempts.

arXiv cs.CR · 8d agoResearch

CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA added two actively exploited MikroTik RouterOS vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-67277 and CVE-2026-86060, to its KEV catalog, mandating federal remediation.

CISA added CVE-2026-67277 (missing authentication for a critical function) and CVE-2026-86060 (improper neutralization of argument delimiters in a command), both in MikroTik RouterOS, to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog based on evidence of active exploitation. Under BOD 26-04, Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies must prioritize rapid remediation of these flaws on publicly exposed assets that grant total control post-exploitation. Agencies are also required to check whether systems were compromised before patches were applied.

CISA Advisories · 6d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-67277CVE-2026-86060

[webapps] miniOrange 5.4.3 - Unauthenticated Auth Bypass

A proof-of-concept exploit for an unauthenticated authentication bypass in miniOrange 5.4.3 has been published on Exploit-DB.

Exploit-DB lists a public proof-of-concept exploit for an unauthenticated authentication bypass in miniOrange 5.4.3. The flaw allows attackers to bypass authentication without credentials. No in-the-wild exploitation or CVE identifier is stated in the listing.

Exploit-DB · 15d agoExploit / PoC

CVE-2026-37171: SuperTokens Core cross-tenant session isolation bypass (6.0.0-11.4.0)

CVE-2026-37171: SuperTokens Core 6.0.0-11.4.0 lacks tenant separation in session operations, enabling cross-tenant access.

CVE-2026-37171 (CWE-863, Incorrect Authorization) affects SuperTokens Core, the self-hosted authentication server by SuperTokens Inc., versions 6.0.0 through 11.4.0. The Core lacks tenant separation in session operations, permitting cross-tenant authorization bypass. The CVE is published, with advisory entries NVD and GitHub GHSA-j7vw-hh5c-2w6x; the disclosure does not mention any observed exploitation.

oss-security · 7d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-371711

Off Guard: Breaking LiteLLM from authentication bypass to cloud compromise

Wiz found LiteLLM auth bypass (CVE-2026-59822) and post-auth RCE (CVE-2026-59821) chainable to cloud compromise; the bypass is in CISA KEV with in-the-wild exploitation.

Wiz scanned roughly 3,074 internet-facing LiteLLM deployments and found 9.6% accepted the default master key sk-1234 or required no authentication, making post-auth attacks effectively pre-auth. The MCP endpoint accepts any Bearer token and grants a valid session (CVE-2026-59822), confirmed exploited in the wild via honeypots and added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Custom code guardrails allow post-auth root-level RCE via exec(compile(...)) (CVE-2026-59821), while pass-through endpoints lack URL validation, enabling cloud credential theft in post-auth scenarios. All assigned vulnerabilities have been patched; the research was presented at DEF CON 34.

Wiz Blog · 7d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-59822CVE-2026-598211

[20260807] - Core - MFA Authentication Bypass

Joomla fixed CVE-2026-73337, an MFA authentication bypass caused by insufficient state checks, affecting Joomla CMS 4.0.0-5.4.7 and 6.0.0-6.1.2.

Joomla security advisory 20260807 describes CVE-2026-73337, an authentication bypass in Joomla CMS multi-factor authentication. Insufficient state checks create a vector that allows 2FA checks to be bypassed; the vendor rates the impact as high with moderate probability. Affected versions are 4.0.0-5.4.7 and 6.0.0-6.1.2; fixes ship in 5.4.8 and 6.1.3. The issue was reported by bloman and Matej Rada on 2026-07-25.

Joomla Security Centre · Aug 17, 2026AdvisoryCVE-2026-73337

Cisco BroadWorks CommPilot Application Software Authorization Bypass Vulnerability

Cisco patched a BroadWorks CommPilot authorization bypass letting low-privileged authenticated users alter device configurations via crafted HTTP requests.

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco BroadWorks CommPilot Application Software is caused by missing authorization checks. An authenticated remote attacker with low privileges can send crafted HTTP requests to alter configurations on select pages. Cisco has released software updates and no workarounds are available.

CVE-2026-75156: Apache Airflow FAB provider: FAB Azure AD OAuth: id_token issuer/audience not validated — cross-tenant authentication bypass

Apache Airflow FAB provider flaw (CVE-2026-75156) lets attackers bypass Azure AD OAuth token validation via unvalidated issuer and audience claims.

Apache Airflow FAB provider versions 3.7.3 through 3.8.0 do not validate the issuer or audience of Azure AD id_tokens during OAuth login, enabling cross-tenant authentication bypass. The issue affects deployments where the FAB auth manager is configured with Azure AD as an OAuth provider. A fix is available in version 3.8.1. Severity is rated moderate.

oss-security · 8d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-75156

AI agent authorization risks remain a gap in new NIST-CISA token security guidance

NIST and CISA release IR 8587 guidance on securing signed tokens, but AI agent authorization and delegation risks remain out of scope.

NIST, with CISA support, published 'Protecting Tokens and Assertions from Forgery, Theft, and Misuse' (NIST IR 8587), recommending continuous monitoring and tighter token lifecycle controls for SSO and API access. The guidance does not yet fully address AI agent identity, delegation chains, or prompt injection steering agents with valid tokens, and NIST says new or expanded standards are needed. Experts recommend treating AI agents as low-trust non-human identities, maintaining agent inventories, expiring credentials after task completion, and requiring human approval for high-risk actions. The report references shared-signal mechanisms like CAEP and RISC, and follows a May incident where a CISA contractor GitHub repository exposed AWS and GitHub tokens.

CSO Online · 6h agoAdvisory

ZDI-26-580: Cisco Identity Services Engine Missing Authentication for Critical Function Information Disclosure Vulnerability

ZDI discloses CVE-2026-20190, a missing-authentication flaw in Cisco Identity Services Engine permitting unauthenticated sensitive information disclosure, rated CVSS 7.5.

ZDI-26-580 covers a missing authentication for critical function flaw in Cisco Identity Services Engine. Unauthenticated remote attackers can disclose sensitive information from affected installations. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-20190 and rated CVSS 7.5. The advisory does not indicate exploitation in the wild.

ZDI Published Advisories · Aug 13, 2026VulnerabilityCVE-2026-20190

Protecting Tokens and Assertions from Forgery, Theft, and Misuse: Implementation Recommendations for Agencies and Cloud Service Providers

NIST and CISA publish final interagency report with implementation guidance for protecting tokens and assertions from forgery and misuse.

CISA released a final NIST/CISA interagency report guiding federal agencies and cloud service providers on protecting identity assertions, access tokens, and cryptographic mechanisms underlying modern authentication and authorization. It addresses forgery, theft, and misuse of signed tokens that adversaries use for lateral movement and data access in hybrid and multi-cloud, SSO, federation, and API-based environments. The final version updates token validation, secrets management, and detection-at-scale guidance gathered via the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative, and supports Executive Order 14306 and Secure by Design principles.

CISA Advisories · 1d agoAdvisory

CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA added three actively exploited vulnerabilities — two JFrog Artifactory and one ConnectWise ScreenConnect — to its KEV Catalog.

CISA added CVE-2026-42016 (JFrog Artifactory incorrect authorization), CVE-2026-42018 (JFrog Artifactory improper authentication), and CVE-2026-84869 (ConnectWise ScreenConnect improper privilege management and missing authorization) to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog based on evidence of active exploitation. BOD 26-04 requires Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies to prioritize rapid remediation of such high-risk vulnerabilities on publicly exposed assets and to check for prior compromise. CISA urges all organizations to adopt risk-based vulnerability management and prioritize KEV remediation.

CONTINUITY: Security-Context Contracts for Composable LLM Agent Controls

Researchers introduce CONTINUITY, a framework of assume-guarantee contracts that preserves LLM agent security context across components, verified across 2,560 attack instances.

The paper identifies security-context discontinuity, where individually sound controls drop, widen, or reinterpret security context as actions cross component boundaries, and proposes CONTINUITY, a framework of assume-guarantee contracts using signed root grants, provenance commitments, role-bound transition receipts, and effect-bound execution permits. It formalizes end-to-end consequence integrity, requiring every external effect to be backed by a valid authorization witness linking principal, task, provenance, and policy state. A reference verifier and cross-layer fault-injection suite covering 32 fault classes showed the full configuration committed no harmful external effect across 2,560 parameterized attack instances while completing all 700 benign tasks and escalating all 200 ambiguous cases.

arXiv cs.CR · 12d agoAI safety & security

CVE-2026-86206, CVE-2026-86207: N-able N-central Authentication Bypass (FIXED)

Rapid7 disclosed two chained N-able N-central flaws, CVE-2026-86206 and CVE-2026-86207, enabling unauthenticated admin account creation; patched in 2026.3 Hotfix 3.

Rapid7 researchers found CVE-2026-86206 (semicolon/Forwarded access-control bypass, CWE-791, CVSSv4 6.9) and CVE-2026-86207 (UserTwoFactorLogin authentication bypass, CWE-305, CVSSv4 7.7) in the latest N-able N-central. Chained, they let a remote unauthenticated attacker create an attacker-controlled System administrator account. The bugs stem from Envoy and Jetty disagreeing on the requested path and whether the client is local. N-able patched both in N-central 2026.3 Hotfix 3, following the earlier CVE-2026-18577 authentication bypass.

Wordfence Argus Finds Critical Authentication Bypass in WPMU DEV Dashboard Plugin

Wordfence researchers disclosed a critical unauthenticated authentication bypass in the WPMU DEV Dashboard plugin, enabling admin takeover and possible RCE.

During internal research on August 19, 2026, Wordfence discovered an authentication bypass in the WPMU DEV Dashboard WordPress plugin, which has roughly 350,000 active installations. Unauthenticated attackers can gain administrator access when Hub Single-Sign On is enabled, enabling complete site takeover. If an administrator-writable code mechanism such as the plugin or theme editor is available, the flaw can lead to remote code execution.

Wordfence · 20d agoVulnerability

Authorization Architectures for Tool-Using AI Agents

Review paper proposes an authorization reference architecture for tool-using AI agents, identifying runtime enforcement and delegation bounds as unresolved gaps.

This review examines authorization models for tool-using AI agents that invoke APIs, databases, browsers, and protocols like MCP, arguing every consequential agent action must be traceable to a human principal, bounded by delegation, and contestable. It introduces a principal hierarchy spanning human user, operator/deployer, orchestrator agent, sub-agent, and tool endpoint, and analyzes five layers including credential lifecycle, delegation propagation, runtime enforcement, prompt injection as authorization bypass, and auditability. Drawing on 89 primary sources from 2023-2026, it proposes seven structural requirements, a four-layer reference architecture, and three deployable configurations.

arXiv cs.CR · 2d agoAI safety & security

ASUS Control Center Critical Flaw Allows Unauthenticated Attackers to Gain Root Access

ASUS patched CVE-2026-19397 (CVSS 7.7) in Control Center Express Agent, letting unauthenticated nearby attackers with an active session take over the host.

ASUS released version 1.7.24 of Control Center Express Agent to fix CVE-2026-19397, a CWE-306 missing-authentication flaw scored 7.7 on CVSS v4. Exploitation requires an active login session on the target and nearby network access, and agent compromise could lead to complete device takeover where the agent runs with elevated privileges. ASUS also issued a same-day advisory for Armory Crate covering ten additional CVEs.

CVE-2026-86466: Apache Airflow FAB provider: FAB Authentik provider: id_token issuer/audience not validated

Apache Airflow FAB provider before 3.9.0 skips issuer/audience validation on Authentik id_tokens, allowing tokens minted for other clients to authenticate to Airflow.

CVE-2026-86466 affects apache-airflow-providers-fab before 3.9.0. The Authentik OAuth path in the FAB auth manager does not validate the issuer or audience claims of accepted id_tokens. An attacker holding a token minted by the same Authentik identity provider for a different client application can present it to Airflow and be authenticated. Severity is rated moderate by the reporter.

ZDI-26-657: ASUS Control Center Express Agent Missing Authentication Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI-26-657: ASUS Control Center Express Agent has an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw, CVE-2026-19397, rated CVSS 9.8.

The Zero Day Initiative published advisory ZDI-26-657 for ASUS Control Center Express Agent. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-19397, lets remote attackers execute arbitrary code without authentication. ZDI assigned a CVSS 9.8 rating. The advisory accompanies a vendor patch for affected installations.

CVE-2026-81866: Apache NiFi: Missing Authorization for Assets and Secrets Referenced by Connector Configuration

Apache NiFi 2.9.0-2.11.0 Connector configuration update and verification APIs skip authorization for referenced Assets and Secrets (CVE-2026-81866, Low).

Apache NiFi 2.9.0 through 2.11.0 provide Connector configuration update and verification REST API methods that do not enforce authorization checks on Assets and Secrets referenced in the proposed configuration. Updating or verifying a Connector configuration can apply Asset and Secret references without the caller holding the required privileges. The issue, CVE-2026-81866, is rated Low severity and affects the nifi-web-api component.

Flextype v1.0.0-alpha.3 NULL access_token Authentication Bypass

Flextype CMS v1.0.0-alpha.3 API endpoints accept a NULL access_token because isset() validation lets requests bypass authentication.

Flextype CMS v1.0.0-alpha.3 API endpoints can declare access_token as a required parameter, but required-parameter validation only verifies the key exists in the request data. Authentication is then verified inside an isset($data['access_token']) condition, which in PHP treats a NULL value as absent. This allows requests supplying a NULL access_token to bypass authentication on affected endpoints. The flaw was disclosed on the Full Disclosure mailing list on September 3, 2026.

Full Disclosure · 12d agoVulnerability 8 sources

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA added actively exploited Google Pixel improper authorization flaw CVE-2026-58704 to its KEV catalog, mandating federal remediation.

CISA added CVE-2026-58704, an improper authorization vulnerability in Google Pixel devices, to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog based on evidence of active exploitation. Under BOD 26-04, Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies must prioritize remediation of KEV-listed vulnerabilities on exposed assets. CISA urges all organizations to prioritize patching KEV entries.

CISA Advisoriesupdated · 8h agofirst · 10h agoExploit / PoC in the wild 17 sourcesCVE-2026-58704

CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA added three actively exploited vulnerabilities to its KEV catalog: CVE-2023-49105 (ownCloud), CVE-2026-53362 (Linux kernel), and CVE-2026-66384 (JFrog Artifactory).

CISA added three new entries to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog based on evidence of active exploitation: ownCloud improper authentication (CVE-2023-49105), an unspecified Linux kernel vulnerability (CVE-2026-53362), and JFrog Artifactory improper path restriction (CVE-2026-66384). KEV listing confirms these flaws are being exploited in the wild rather than posing theoretical risk. Under BOD 26-04, federal civilian executive branch agencies must prioritize remediation of KEV entries.

CVE-2026-86465: Apache Airflow Akeyless provider: Akeyless secrets backend: team-scope guard bypass via user-controlled key

Apache Airflow Akeyless provider before 0.3.1 lets DAG authors bypass team-scope guards and read other teams' secrets.

CVE-2026-86465 (moderate) affects apache-airflow-providers-akeyless before 0.3.1. The Akeyless secrets backend's team-scope guard can be bypassed with a user-controlled key: in multi-team deployments, a DAG author scoped to one team can supply a Variable key containing a path separator that resolves a secret belonging to another team.

oss-security · 1d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-86465

CVE-2026-76186: Apache Airflow Keycloak provider: Keycloak token cookies not bound to Airflow session identity

Apache Airflow Keycloak provider takes authorization tokens from unauthenticated cookies never checked against the signed session identity, enabling cookie substitution.

CVE-2026-76186 affects apache-airflow-providers-keycloak before 0.10.0. From Airflow 3.3, the Keycloak auth manager derives user identity from the signed Airflow session token but reads Keycloak access and refresh tokens used for every authorization decision from separate unauthenticated cookies. It never verifies that the two correspond to the same user, allowing mismatched token cookies to drive authorization decisions. Severity is rated moderate.

CVE-2026-82310: Apache Airflow FAB provider: FAB auth manager: deactivated users retain and renew Core API JWT access

Apache Airflow FAB provider 2.0.0-3.8.x lets deactivated users keep unexpired Core API JWTs and mint replacements indefinitely.

CVE-2026-82310 affects apache-airflow-providers-fab versions 2.0.0 before 3.9.0. Deactivating a user account does not stop tokens issued before deactivation. While password authentication correctly rejects the disabled account, the Core API continues to accept an existing unexpired token naming it and lets that token mint a replacement. Severity is rated moderate.

oss-security · 1d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-82310