CVE-2026-48599

Authorization bypass via path binding override in elixir-grpc/grpc HTTP transcoding

HIGH
7.6
CVSS Score
Published: June 15, 2026 at 09:55 PM UTC
Updated: October 25, 2026 at 11:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorGrpc

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Severity
HIGH7.6
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
PoC

Description

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in elixir-grpc grpc allows authenticated attackers to access or modify resources belonging to other users by smuggling a conflicting value for any path-bound field via the query string or request body. In 'Elixir.GRPC.Server.Transcode':map_request/5 (lib/grpc/server/transcode.ex), all three clauses use Map.merge/2 with path bindings as the first argument, giving them the lowest merge precedence. A request such as GET /users/me/profile?user_id=victim (or a POST with {"user_id": "victim"} when body: "*") yields a decoded protobuf struct where the path-bound field carries the attacker-supplied value rather than the router-extracted value. Any handler that uses the path-bound field for authorization, multi-tenancy scoping, or ownership checks is silently bypassed. This issue affects grpc from 0.8.0 before 1.0.0.

Affected

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

All versions0.8.08aaf3d3a8c4c7b08ac65e9c6f254e0d24da1d048
Vendor states this is fixed in 33b6a095dbc91c6dee3c7b90893d7d74952e82e4 (fixed)
Affected range stops below 1.0.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

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CVSS

7.6HIGHEEF
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-639

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