CVE-2026-27960
OpenCTI privilege escalation and unauthenticated access via default admin account
- Published
- May 5, 2026
- Updated
- May 6, 2026
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Evidence observed
- Aug 29, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 79.6%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
OpenCTI is an open source platform for managing cyber threat intelligence knowledge and observables. In versions 6.6.0 through 6.9.12, there is a privilege escalation vulnerability that can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to query the API as any existing user, including the default admin account. This issue has been fixed in version 6.9.13. As a workaround, the default admin can be disabled using the `APP__ADMIN__EXTERNALLY_MANAGED` configuration.
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