CVE-2025-53106

Graylog vulnerable to privilege escalation through API tokens

HIGH
8.8
CVSS Score
Published: July 2, 2025 at 01:28 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 09:37 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsGraylogGRAYLOG2 Server

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Severity
HIGH8.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

Graylog is a free and open log management platform. In versions 6.2.0 to before 6.2.4 and 6.3.0-alpha.1 to before 6.3.0-rc.2, Graylog users can gain elevated privileges by creating and using API tokens for the local Administrator or any other user for whom the malicious user knows the ID. For the attack to succeed, the attacker needs a user account in Graylog. They can then proceed to issue hand-crafted requests to the Graylog REST API and exploit a weak permission check for token creation. This issue has been patched in versions 6.2.4 and 6.3.0-rc.2. A workaround involves disabling the respective configuration found in System > Configuration > Users > "Allow users to create personal access tokens".

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 6.2.4v < 6.3.0-rc.2
Affected range stops below 6.2.4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 6.3.0-rc.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

8.8HIGHGitHub_M
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-285

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