9.8Critical
CVE-2026-52466
Open Library Foundation VuFind v11.0.3 and v4.1 is vulnerable to toInorrect Access Control. The application fails to stop processing an incoming request in VuFind\Controller\AbstractBase::validateAccessPermission after it has found that controller level access permissions do not allow access to the requested function. The requester receives a response indicating that access was denied, but the actual function is executed regardless of that.
What this means for your business
- An attacker can use it remotely, over a network, without a login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
- FIRST's prediction model gives it a 0.3% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 18% of all known flaws.
What to do
- 1Ask your IT team or provider whether any of your systems use the affected product.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 9.8 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- Weakness
- CWE-863
- Assigned by
- cve@mitre.org
Dates
- Published
- 2026-08-06
- Last modified
- 2026-09-09
- Sources
- NVD