MISP organization administrators can target site administrator accounts for password reset
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-863.
Summary
An incorrect authorization vulnerability in MISP allows an organization administrator to target site administrator accounts belonging to the same organization through the administrative email functionality. The affected code restricted organization administrators to users within their own organization, but did not exclude accounts assigned a site administrator role from recipient queries. As a result, an organization administrator could perform privileged account-management actions, such as initiating a password reset workflow, against a higher-privileged site administrator account in the same organization. Successful exploitation may allow an authenticated organization administrator to interfere with or potentially take over a site administrator account, resulting in privilege escalation and full compromise of the MISP instance’s confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Attack prerequisites: The attacker must be authenticated as an organization administrator in the same organization as a site administrator account.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MISP | misp | before 2.5.40 | 2.5.40 | Patch available | CNA |
- misp VendorMISP Affected before 2.5.40 Fixed in 2.5.40 Patch available CNA
CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1
Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:misp-project:misp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | — | — | Misp-project |
- cpe:2.3:a:misp-project:misp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·Misp-project
Remediation
- Fix · CNA misp (misp) Fixed in 2.5.40
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
misp 2.5.40
12 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 1 MEDIUM, 11 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-39253 MISP mass assignment vulnerabilities allow unauthorized modification of ownership and delegation recordsPriority MEDIUM 44
- TI-2026-39252 MISP sharing group creation mass assignment allows unauthorized takeover of existing sharing groupsPriority LOW 36
- TI-2026-39251 MISP automation endpoints may be exposed to CSRF when Sec-Fetch-Site protection is disabled by defaultPriority LOW 36
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-54358
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-9cgp-f46x-4wgf
More MISP vulnerabilities
- TI-2025-41517 In MISP before 2.5.28, app/View/Elements/Workflows/executionPath.ctp allows XSS in the workflow execution path. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.0
- TI-2026-65744 MISP TOTP Code Replay Allows Duplicate Authentication Within Validity Period CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-54145 Path Traversal in MISP Object Template Resolution During STIX Import and Export in misp-stix library CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.8
- TI-2020-10250 MISP MISP-maltego 1.4.4 incorrectly shares a MISP connection across users in a remote-transform use case. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-59159 MISP Unauthenticated Mail Endpoints Allow Unbounded Storage Consumption and Request Flooding CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-58541 MISP LDAP and LinOTP Authentication Bypass via Empty or Invalid Credentials CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.5
Sources
- CVE-2026-54358 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-54358 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-9cgp-f46x-4wgf · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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