CVE-2026-48599

Authorization bypass via path binding override in elixir-grpc/grpc HTTP transcoding

State
Published
Severity
7.6 High
Published
Jun 15, 2026
Updated
Sep 24, 2026
Reserved
May 22, 2026

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Description

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in elixir-grpc grpc allows authenticated attackers to access or modify resources belonging to other users by smuggling a conflicting value for any path-bound field via the query string or request body.

In 'Elixir.GRPC.Server.Transcode':map_request/5 (lib/grpc/server/transcode.ex), all three clauses use Map.merge/2 with path bindings as the first argument, giving them the lowest merge precedence. A request such as GET /users/me/profile?user_id=victim (or a POST with {"user_id": "victim"} when body: "*") yields a decoded protobuf struct where the path-bound field carries the attacker-supplied value rather than the router-extracted value. Any handler that uses the path-bound field for authorization, multi-tenancy scoping, or ownership checks is silently bypassed.

This issue affects grpc: from 0.8.0 before 1.0.0.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.07.6 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NEEF

Weaknesses

  • CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Affected Products

ProductVersions
grpcelixir-grpc
  • 0.8.0 to before 1.0.0Affected
grpcelixir-grpc
  • 8aaf3d3a8c4c7b08ac65e9c6f254e0d24da1d048 to before 33b6a095dbc91c6dee3c7b90893d7d74952e82e4Affected

References

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