CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-57485

8.5 HIGH Published 2026-08-17 Modified 2026-10-23 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2026-08-17
Last modified
2026-10-23
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200, CWE-522

Description

Stirling-PDF is a locally hosted web application that facilitates various operations on PDF files. Prior to 2.9.0, the /api/v1/pipeline/handleData endpoint in app/core/src/main/java/stirling/software/SPDF/controller/api/pipeline/PipelineProcessor.java injects the STIRLING-PDF-BACKEND-API-USER API key into pipeline subrequests, allowing an authenticated ROLE_USER to retrieve the key through /api/v1/user/get-api-key, impersonate the internal service account, bypass normal rate limits, and access internal endpoints including /api/v1/info/requests/all and /api/v1/info/load/all. This issue is fixed in version 2.9.0.

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
  • CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials weakness

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