CVE-2026-32726

high

Description

SciTokens C++ is a minimal library for creating and using SciTokens from C or C++. Prior to version 1.4.1, scitokens-cpp is vulnerable to an authorization bypass in path-based scope validation. The enforcer used a simple string-prefix comparison when checking whether a requested resource path was covered by a token's authorized scope path. Because the check did not require a path-segment boundary, a token scoped to one path could incorrectly authorize access to sibling paths that merely started with the same prefix. This issue has been patched in version 1.4.1.

References

https://github.com/scitokens/scitokens-cpp/security/advisories/GHSA-q5fm-fgvx-32jq

https://github.com/scitokens/scitokens-cpp/commit/decfe2f00cb9cabbf1e17a3bb2cd4ea1bbbd8a73

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-03-31

Updated: 2026-04-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00028