CVE-2026-11500

Weaviate Static API Key client.go validateConfig authorization

State: Published
Severity: 2.3 Low
Published: Jun 8, 2026
Updated: Jun 8, 2026
Reserved: Jun 7, 2026

Description

A vulnerability was identified in Weaviate up to 1.37.7. This vulnerability affects the function validateConfig of the file usecases/auth/authentication/apikey/client.go of the component Static API Key Handler. The manipulation of the argument StaticApiKey leads to authorization bypass. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. It is stated that the exploitability is difficult. The exploit is publicly available and might be used. Upgrading to version 1.38.0-rc.0 is able to resolve this issue. The identifier of the patch is 40f2cc32279f0f8a51016c3c6870a2c0c808e6c0. You should upgrade the affected component.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	2.3 Low	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P	VulDB
3.1	5.0 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C	VulDB
3.0	5.0 Medium	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C	VulDB
2.0	4.6 Medium	AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C	VulDB

Weaknesses

CWE-639 Authorization Bypass
CWE-285 Improper Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Weaviaten/a	1.37.0Affected 1.37.1Affected 1.37.2Affected 1.37.3Affected 1.37.4Affected 1.37.5Affected 1.37.6Affected 1.37.7Affected 1.38.0-rc.0Not affected

References

VDB-369120 | Weaviate Static API Key client.go validateConfig authorizationvdb-entrytechnical-description
VDB-369120 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA)signaturepermissions-required
CVE-2026-11500 | CVE Analysis and Reportthird-party-advisory
Submit #835080 | weaviate 20f14bed78eddac098f84aad97204c0d86ad0c34 Authorization Bypassthird-party-advisory
https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/issues/11392exploitissue-tracking
https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/commit/40f2cc32279f0f8a51016c3c6870a2c0c808e6c0patch
https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/releases/tag/v1.38.0-rc.0patch
https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/product

Every record here comes from the CVE Program’s CVE List. © 1999–2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. The records are reproduced under the CVE Program terms of use.