Missing per-zaaktype authorization in ZAC by-ID read endpoints
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-285.
Summary
ZAC (infonl dimpact-zaakafhandelcomponent) is affected before 5.2.0. Several by-ID read endpoints for cases, decisions and process diagrams skip the check that the user may read the target case's case type. An authenticated user with only a low-privilege application role who knows a case or decision UUID can read its decisions, audit history and workflow diagram. The flaw is CWE-639, an authorization bypass through a user-controlled key.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-06
Description from the CNA
ZAC is an open-source, workflow-based Common Ground component for Dutch municipal case management. Prior to 5.2.0, by-id read endpoints in `src/main/kotlin/nl/info/zac/app/zaak/ZaakRestService.kt` omit `assertPolicy`(`policyService.readZaakRechten(zaak).lezen`) authorization. `RequestAuthorizationFilter` and `hasAnyApplicationRole` require only an application role on any zaaktype, not the target case's type, while `zaak-rechten.rego` enforces the actual `zaaktype_allowed` boundary only when invoked. An authenticated low-privileged municipal user who knows a case or decision UUID can use `GET /rest/zaken/besluit/zaakUuid/{uuid}` (`listBesluitenForZaakUUID`) to read decisions including types, dates, and free-text toelichting; `GET /rest/zaken/besluit/{uuid}/historie` (`listBesluitHistorie`) to read audit old/new values; and `GET /rest/zaken/{uuid}/process-diagram` (`downloadProcessDiagram`) to read BPMN workflow state across unauthorized zaaktypes. The advisory also identifies `zaak/{uuid}/afzender` (`listAfzendersVoorZaak`) as exposing zaaktype mailbox configuration without a policy check. The search/_zoek path is correctly authorization-filtered and is not part of this by-id read cluster. This issue is fixed in version 5.2.0.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- 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 infonl dimpact-zaakafhandelcomponent to version 5.2.0.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-06
- Fix · CNA dimpact-zaakafhandelcomponent (infonl) Fixed in 5.2.0
Timeline
- 2026-10-30 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-55551
- 2026-11-01 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
- 2026-11-06 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-11-06 Priority changed: LOW → MEDIUM
References
Other 6
- https://github.com/infonl/dimpact-zaakafhandelcomponent/security/advisories/GHSA-cv9m-35q4-cxfm
- https://github.com/infonl/dimpact-zaakafhandelcomponent/pull/6225
- https://github.com/infonl/dimpact-zaakafhandelcomponent/pull/6229
- https://github.com/infonl/dimpact-zaakafhandelcomponent/commit/7b90586be658cec9fa5c98c0838636237f40931f
- https://github.com/infonl/dimpact-zaakafhandelcomponent/commit/d050f247301a1bcfb867015725a693c540a06f5a
- https://github.com/infonl/dimpact-zaakafhandelcomponent/releases/tag/v5.2.0
Sources
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