CVE-2026-33005

medium

Description

Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges vulnerability in Apache OpenMeetings. Any registered user can query web service with their credentials and get files/sub-folders of any folder by ID (metadata only NOT contents). Metadata includes id, type, name and some other field. Full list of fields get be checked at FileItemDTO object. This issue affects Apache OpenMeetings: from 3.10 before 9.0.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 9.0.0, which fixes the issue.

References

Advisories
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https://lists.apache.org/thread/pttoprd628g3xr6lpp3bm1z8m3z8t4p7

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/09/10

https://openmeetings.apache.org/openmeetings-db/apidocs/org.apache.openmeetings.db/org/apache/openmeetings/db/dto/file/FileItemDTO.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-04-09

Updated: 2026-04-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00015