GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-rc95-pcm8-65v9 Quarkus has Authentication/Authorization bypasses
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-39852
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- io.quarkus:quarkus-vertx-http
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287, CWE-551, CWE-863
- Reviewed
- 2026-05-04
Affected packages
• Maven io.quarkus:quarkus-vertx-http: < 3.20.6.1 → fixed in 3.20.6.1
• Maven io.quarkus:quarkus-vertx-http: >= 3.21.0, < 3.27.3.1 → fixed in 3.27.3.1
• Maven io.quarkus:quarkus-vertx-http: >= 3.30.0, < 3.33.1.1 → fixed in 3.33.1.1
• Maven io.quarkus:quarkus-vertx-http: >= 3.34.0, < 3.35.1.1 → fixed in 3.35.1.1
Description
Quarkus version 3.32.4 is vulnerable to an authorization bypass issue (GHSL-2026-099), in which semicolons (matrix parameters) in HTTP requests can be used to bypass security constraints, potentially allowing unauthorized access to protected resources.
Unauthenticated or lower-privileged users can bypass HTTP path-based authorization policies by appending a semicolon (`;`) and arbitrary text to the request URL. The vulnerability arises from a path-normalization inconsistency: Quarkus's security layer performs authorization checks on the raw URL path (which preserves matrix parameters), whereas RESTEasy Reactive's routing layer strips matrix parameters before matching endpoints. This allows requests like `/api/admin;anything` to bypass policies protecting `/api/admin` while still routing to the protected endpoint.
Impact
This issue may lead to Authentication/Authorization bypasses.
Credits
This issue was discovered with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent and manually verified by GHSL team members @p- (Peter Stöckli) and @m-y-mo (Man Yue Mo).
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-39852 Quarkus is a Java framework for building cloud-native applications. vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/security/advisories/GHSA-rc95-pcm8-65v9 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-39852 advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:11720 web
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:11721 web
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13631 web
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17789 web
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25089 web
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34608 web
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54435 web
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-39852 web
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2457819 web
- https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus package
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-39852.json web