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Description

code100x contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the Mobile API that allows unauthenticated attackers to impersonate arbitrary users by supplying a crafted JSON payload in the 'g' HTTP header. The middleware in middleware.ts skips identity header generation when an Auth-Key header is present without validating its value, allowing attackers to inject a spoofed user identity header that the downstream route handler in the mobile courses endpoint accepts as trusted, granting unauthorized access to course data belonging to any enrolled user or administrator.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-05-18 | Published 2026-05-26 | Updated 2026-05-26 | Assigner VulnCheck




HIGH: 8.2CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

HIGH: 8.8CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Problem types

CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Product status

Default status
unknown

Any version before 90b489ee7c63c301107d6374d4b3f2b8e4060fe5
affected

Any version before 88c6c5e94e23da101235c4c7e9c7591ac1016549
affected

Credits

Shravan Manne finder

VulnCheck coordinator

References

github.com/code100x/cms/issues/1924 exploit

github.com/code100x/cms/pull/1927 exploit

github.com/code100x/cms/issues/1924 technical-description

github.com/code100x/cms/pull/1927

github.com/...anges/90b489ee7c63c301107d6374d4b3f2b8e4060fe5

github.com/...anges/88c6c5e94e23da101235c4c7e9c7591ac1016549

www.vulncheck.com/...thentication-bypass-via-header-spoofing third-party-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2026-8890)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-8890)

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