Authorization bypass in Bytebase lets users overwrite other projects' comments
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-639.
Summary
Bytebase before 3.16.0 contains an authorization bypass in the UpdateIssueComment handler, tracked as CWE-639. A low-privileged project user, including one with the Project Viewer role, can supply a comment UID from another project and overwrite comments they cannot access.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28
Description from the CNA
Bytebase before 3.16.0 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability in the UpdateIssueComment handler that allows low-privileged project users to modify comments in other projects by supplying a foreign comment UID. Attackers with any project role, including Project Viewer, can set their own project's issue as parent and reference another project's comment UID to overwrite comments they cannot access.
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
Upgrade Bytebase to version 3.16.0 or later, which fixes the issue.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28
- Fix · CNA bytebase (bytebase) Fixed in 3.16.0
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
bytebase 3.16.0
2 records Highest priority Priority LOW 2 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-79259 Authorization bypass in Bytebase exposes other projects' task runsPriority LOW 24
Timeline
- 2026-10-22 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-115321
- 2026-10-22 Alias added: GHSA-27j2-crf8-3w95
- 2026-10-23 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
Patch 2
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Sources
- CVE-2026-115321 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-115321 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-27j2-crf8-3w95 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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