Novu: Cross-Environment Integration Manipulation (IDOR)
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-639.
Summary
Novu provides an API for sending notifications through multiple channels. Prior to 3.18.0, Novu integration mutation use cases including remove-integration, update-integration, auto-configure-integration, and set-integration-as-primary look up an integration by integrationId and organizationId without consistently enforcing environmentId. A caller with access to one environment in an organization can target an integration identifier from another environment and delete the integration, modify its credentials, change the primary provider, or trigger auto-configuration. The repository advisory defines both environment API keys and dashboard sessions as affected. The 3.18.0 change enforces the environment boundary only for environment-scoped API-key authentication, while its tests intentionally retain cross-environment dashboard-session behavior, so it does not completely remediate the advisory-defined scope. Version 3.18.0 is a partial fix attempt, and the dashboard-session behavior requires curator resolution.
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
- Fix · CNA novu (novuhq) Fixed in 3.18.0
- Fix · CNA api-service (@novu) Fixed in 3.18.0
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-75517
References
More novuhq vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-52875 Novu: Stored XSS in In-App Inbox via notification redirect.url javascript: scheme CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.1
- TI-2026-52876 Novu: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) via Chat Provider Webhook URLs CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.3
Sources
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