Flowintel Organization Administrator Can Reset Full Administrator Password and Escalate Privileges
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Privilege escalation
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · Low
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-269.
Summary
Affected versions of Flowintel contain an authorization flaw in the administrative user-edit API. The existing authorization check correctly prevented an organization administrator from editing users in another organization, but it did not prevent them from editing a full administrator within their own organization. As a result, an org admin could modify that full administrator account, including changing its password. The upstream commit explicitly describes the issue as: “Org admin can change the password of a full admin in the same organization.” The fix adds a higher-privilege boundary check: if user_to_edit.is_admin(): return ... 403 so organization administrators can no longer modify full administrator accounts. Version impacted >=3.3.0
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
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-81818
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-7p7v-2gph-j69j
References
More flowintel vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-56455 Flowintel Fails to Invalidate Active Sessions After Password Change CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2026-56320 Flowintel Alert Settings Configuration Allows Remote Code Execution via Arbitrary Configuration Keys CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.6
- TI-2026-56456 Flowintel Login Email Validation Bypass Allows Log Injection via Crafted Email Input CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9
- TI-2026-56389 Flowintel Arbitrary Log File Path Allows Remote Code Execution via Template Injection CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-56446 Flowintel Missing Task-to-Case Authorization Allows Cross-Case Task Modification CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.2
- TI-2026-56318 Flowintel Note PDF Export Allows Arbitrary Local File Read via Pandoc/XeLaTeX Processing CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.1
Sources
- CVE-2026-81818 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-81818 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-7p7v-2gph-j69j · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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