MISP mass assignment vulnerabilities allow unauthorized modification of ownership and delegation records
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-639.
Summary
MISP contained multiple mass assignment vulnerabilities in the handling of collections, tag collections, event delegations, and shadow attributes. Several controller actions accepted user-supplied fields that should have remained server-controlled, including record identifiers and ownership-related fields such as id, org_id, orgc_id, and user_id. An authenticated attacker with access to the affected endpoints could craft requests containing protected fields in order to alter object ownership, redirect an update to another record, overwrite existing event delegation requests, or modify shadow attribute proposals belonging to another organization. This could result in unauthorized modification of MISP objects and, depending on object visibility and sharing configuration, unauthorized access to or transfer of sensitive threat intelligence data. The issue was fixed by explicitly pinning ownership and identity fields to their stored values during edit operations and by removing user-supplied primary keys from create-only save paths. Affected components: * CollectionsController::edit() * EventDelegationsController::delegateEvent() * ShadowAttributesController::edit() * TagCollectionsController::edit()915 * TagCollectionsController::editWithTags() Attack requirements: The attacker must be authenticated and able to reach the affected MISP endpoints. No user interaction is required.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
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-2026-39252 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
- TI-2026-39250 MISP organization administrators can target site administrator accounts for password resetPriority LOW 34
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-54361
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-94hj-x7j9-542x
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-2026-54361 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-54361 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-94hj-x7j9-542x · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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