GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-w754-5646-xq9j Apache Answer has an Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-25699
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/apache/incubator-answer
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-359
- Reviewed
- 2026-07-30
Affected packages
• Go github.com/apache/incubator-answer: < 1.7.2-0.20260206073245-92994b49976b → fixed in 1.7.2-0.20260206073245-92994b49976b
Description
Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Apache Answer.
This issue affects Apache Answer: through 2.0.0.
Timeline-related APIs lacked proper authorization checks, allowing regular authenticated users to access deleted, private, or unapproved content and its revision history.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.0.1, which fixes the issue.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-25699 Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Apache Answer. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-359 Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-25699 advisory
- https://github.com/apache/answer/commit/92994b49976b6206a7000d045d924ec4fd5be1be web
- https://github.com/apache/answer package
- https://github.com/apache/answer/releases/tag/v2.0.1 web
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/c36k4hzwhncqo0qfn5fg57f1gkjhyfv8 web
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/06/09/6 web