CVE-2026-54106

medium

Description

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Electronic Protest Docketing System (EPDS) and Civilian Board of Contract Appeals (CBCA) Electronic Docketing System (EDS) do not validate X-Forwarded-For HTTP headers, allowing a remote attacker with compromised administrator credentials to bypass network access controls and log in.

References

https://www.eds.cbca.gov/login

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-54106

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/IT/white/2026/va-26-169-01.json

https://epds.gao.gov/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-06-18

Updated: 2026-06-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.7

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 5.1

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00289