CVE-2026-68746

Livebook Teams identity check fails open when the deployment group is unresolvable, allowing unauthenticated access

HIGH
8.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 5, 2026 at 07:43 PM UTC
Updated: October 24, 2026 at 04:10 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsLivebookLivebook

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Severity
HIGH8.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.8%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open') vulnerability in livebook-dev livebook allows an unauthenticated network client to obtain full access to a Livebook server that enforces identity through Livebook Teams. A Livebook Agent or App Server connected to Livebook Teams caches the identifier of the deployment group it belongs to, and resolves that identifier against a locally cached list of deployment groups on every request in order to decide whether Teams identity enforcement is active. Livebook.Hubs.TeamClient.handle_call/3 in lib/livebook/hubs/team_client.ex does not distinguish a deployment group that could not be resolved from one that was resolved with identity enforcement switched off: the clause matches only the case where a group was found with enforcement enabled, and falls through to a catch-all that reports enforcement as switched off for everything else. The two neighbouring functions that decide user and application access resolve the same identifier and treat the same unresolved result as a denial. When the identity status is reported as switched off, Livebook.ZTA.LivebookTeams.authenticate/3 in lib/livebook/zta/livebook_teams.ex returns empty identity metadata and allows the request to continue instead of halting it. LivebookWeb.UserPlug.build_current_user/3 merges that empty metadata into a newly built user, whose access type defaults to full access, and LivebookWeb.AuthPlug.authorized?/1 grants access to any user holding full access. The cached identifier becomes unresolvable when the deployment group it refers to is deleted while the agent is not connected to receive the change, most concretely when a deployment group is deleted during the window in which an agent is disconnected or reconnecting. The client removes the group from its cached list without clearing the identifier that refers to it. Any client able to reach the affected server over the network is then granted the same access as a fully privileged member of the organisation, including the ability to read notebooks and configured secrets, execute code on the server's runtime, and disrupt its operation. This issue affects livebook: from 0.19.7 before 0.19.9.

Affected

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

All versions0.19.70.19.7-cuda12fc2c87c6b0276705281842acbe17142d1ac4d555
Affected range stops below 0.19.9, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 0.19.9-cuda12, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
0.19.7 ≤ v < 0.19.9
Affected range stops below 0.19.9, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

References (6)

RelatedVendor Advisory
Source: 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-68746.html
Vendor AdvisoryRelated
Source: 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/security/advisories/GHSA-74j5-6grg-g6wj
RelatedThird Party Advisory
Source: 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-68746

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-636

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