Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in eScriptorium
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · High · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-639.
Summary
Authorization bypass in the process and annotation taxonomy serializers in Scripta eScriptorium through 26.04.1 allows a remote authenticated user to run segmentation and transcription against other users' document parts, overwriting their content, via part primary keys supplied to a many=True related field whose queryset restriction was applied to the ManyRelatedField instead of its child_relation and therefore had no effect
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-18275
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-4mrh-554p-w3v7
References
More Scripta Escriptorium vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-15011 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in eScriptorium CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2026-15094 Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in eScriptorium CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.5
- TI-2026-15030 Missing Authorization in eScriptorium CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1
- TI-2026-15029 Missing Authorization in eScriptorium CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3
Sources
- CVE-2026-18275 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-18275 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-4mrh-554p-w3v7 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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