GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-4v9x-cqc5-j645 Codechecker has an authentication bypass for certain API calls
CRITICAL
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-25660
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- codechecker
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-290, CWE-863
- Reviewed
- 2026-05-05
Affected packages
• PyPI codechecker: <= 6.27.3 (no fix yet)
Description
Summary
Authentication bypass occurs when the URL ends with Authentication with certain function calls. This bypass allows assigning arbitrary permissions to any existing user in CodeChecker.
Details
The following functions are affected under the Authentication endpoint: `getAuthorisedNames`, `getPermissionsForUser`, `hasPermission`, `addPermission`, and `removePermission`.
The vulnerability allows unauthenticated users to execute these function calls with arbitrary arguments.
In the logs, the exploit shows as follows:
```
[INFO 2026-04-23 21:23] - 127.0.0.1:42654 -- [Anonymous] POST /v6.67/Authentication@getAuthorisedNames
[INFO 2026-04-23 21:23] - 127.0.0.1:42654 -- [Anonymous] POST /v6.67/Authentication@addPermission
```
Impact
An attacker with a CodeChecker user can effectively acquire superuser permissions by calling these endpoints.
Patch
A patch is available at https://github.com/Ericsson/codechecker/releases/tag/v6.27.4.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-25660 CodeChecker is an analyzer tooling, defect database and viewer extension for the Clang Static Analyzer and Clang Tidy. vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/Ericsson/codechecker/security/advisories/GHSA-4v9x-cqc5-j645 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-25660 advisory
- https://github.com/Ericsson/codechecker package
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/codechecker/PYSEC-2026-317.yaml web
- https://pypi.org/project/codechecker web