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GHSA-6777-P72P-347G

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-21 09:32 – Updated: 2026-08-21 21:31

Details

Improper access control in CloudStack's annotation functionality allows unauthorized comment creation and disclosure.

The addAnnotation and listAnnotation APIs perform an ownership check when an entity's UUID is specified, but fail to honor its result correctly. This lets any authenticated user write annotations to, and disclose existing annotations/comments on, an entity they don't own by simply supplying its UUID.

This issue affects Apache CloudStack: from 4.15.0.0 through 4.20.3.0 and from 4.21.0.0 through 4.22.1.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.20.3.1 or 4.22.1.1 or later, which fixes the issue.

Severity

5.4 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

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CVE-2026-66797 (GCVE-0-2026-66797)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-21 08:21 – Updated: 2026-08-21 19:45

Title

Apache CloudStack: Unauthorised comment creation and disclosure

Summary

Improper access control in CloudStack's annotation functionality allows unauthorized comment creation and disclosure. The addAnnotation and listAnnotation APIs perform an ownership check when an entity's UUID is specified, but fail to honor its result correctly. This lets any authenticated user write annotations to, and disclose existing annotations/comments on, an entity they don't own by simply supplying its UUID. This issue affects Apache CloudStack: from 4.15.0.0 through 4.20.3.0 and from 4.21.0.0 through 4.22.1.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.20.3.1 or 4.22.1.1 or later, which fixes the issue.

Severity

5.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-21 19:45 UTC

CWE

CWE-284 - Improper Access Control

Assigner

apache mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://lists.apache.org/thread/g6cwddtjrwbh1d56w…	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Apache Software Foundation	Apache CloudStack	Affected: 4.16.0.0 , ≤ 4.20.3.0 (semver) Affected: 4.21.0.0 , ≤ 4.22.1.0 (semver)

Credits

Łukasz Bawolski <lukasz.bawolski@exea.pl>

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