CVE-2026-71277

9.1 CRITICALpublic exploit available

Published 2026-08-05 · Updated 2026-08-10

AI risk analysis

Summary: The flaw allows an attacker to bypass authentication by sending any non-empty Authorization header, granting unauthorized access to protected endpoints.
Exploitability: Exploitation is relatively easy as it requires only sending a crafted HTTP request with a valid-looking Authorization header.
Blast radius: If exploited, this could lead to full unauthorized access to sensitive functionality within the rust-iot-platform application.
Prioritized remediation: Implement proper token validation by checking against a session or token store and ensuring signatures are verified.

auth-bypasswebsecurity

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NVD description

rust-iot-platform's AuthToken request-guard implementation (api/src/main.rs) only checks whether the Authorization HTTP header is present, and never validates its value against any session, token store, or signature. Any request carrying an arbitrary non-empty Authorization header (e.g. ) satisfies the guard, granting access to every endpoint protected only by this request guard.

CVSS vector

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

Weaknesses

CWE-287

Public exploit & PoC references

All references

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