CVE-2026-23480

Blinko: Low Privilege User Privilege Escalation - upsertUser Endpoint

State
Published
Severity
5.3 Medium
Published
Mar 23, 2026
Updated
Mar 24, 2026
Reserved
Jan 13, 2026

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Description

Blinko is an AI-powered card note-taking project. Prior to version 1.8.4, there is a privilege escalation vulnerability. The upsertUser endpoint has 3 issues: it is missing superAdminAuthMiddleware, any logged-in user can call it; the originalPassword is an optional parameter and if not provided password verification is skipped; there is no check for input.id === ctx.id (ownership verification). This could result in any authenticated user modifying other users' passwords, direct escalation to superadmin, and complete account takeover. This issue has been patched in version 1.8.4.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.05.3 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-288 Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

Affected Products

ProductVersions
blinkoblinkospace
  • < 1.8.4Affected

References

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