A vulnerability was identified in Weaviate up to 1.37.7. This vulnerability affects the function validateConfig of the file usecases/auth/authentication/apikey/client.go of the component Static API Key Handler. The manipulation of the argument StaticApiKey leads to authorization bypass. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. It is stated that the exploitability is difficult. The exploit is publicly available and might be used. Upgrading to version 1.38.0-rc.0 is able to resolve this issue. The identifier of the patch is 40f2cc32279f0f8a51016c3c6870a2c0c808e6c0. You should upgrade the affected component.

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  - A vulnerability was identified in Weaviate up to 1.37.7. This vulnerability affects the function
    validateConfig of the file usecases/auth/authentication/apikey/client.go of the component Static API Key
    Handler. The manipulation of the argument StaticApiKey leads to authorization bypass. It is possible to
    initiate the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. It is stated that the
    exploitability is difficult. The exploit is publicly available and might be used. Upgrading to version
    1.38.0-rc.0 is able to resolve this issue. The identifier of the patch is
    40f2cc32279f0f8a51016c3c6870a2c0c808e6c0. You should upgrade the affected component. (CVE-2026-11500)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
463802	Echo: weaviate-1.37: security update to 1.37.17+e1	Tenable Cloud Security	Echo Local Security Checks	Local	low
463802	Echo: weaviate-1.37: security update to 1.37.17+e1	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Echo Local Security Checks	Local	low
445479	SCA: security update for github.com/weaviate/weaviate (GHSA-jqpm-wf57-qx5c)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	low
445479	SCA: security update for github.com/weaviate/weaviate (GHSA-jqpm-wf57-qx5c)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	low

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CVE-2026-11500

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