GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-4v9x-cqc5-j645 Codechecker has an authentication bypass for certain API calls

CRITICAL Published 2026-05-05 Modified 2026-10-27 Official page ↗
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

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-290 Authentication Bypass by Spoofing weakness
  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness

References