SmarterMail before build 9777 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability where JWT access and refresh tokens embed a role claim at issuance that is not revalidated against the account's current role when redeemed through POST /api/v1/auth/refresh-token. Attackers who capture a refresh token issued before an administrator demotion, or a demoted user whose session was not actively polling at the time of demotion, can replay the stale token to obtain a new access token retaining the higher-privilege role (such as DomainAdmin or SysAdmin) until natural token expiry.
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Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:30:00 +0000
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| Description | SmarterMail before build 9777 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability where JWT access and refresh tokens embed a role claim at issuance that is not revalidated against the account's current role when redeemed through POST /api/v1/auth/refresh-token. Attackers who capture a refresh token issued before an administrator demotion, or a demoted user whose session was not actively polling at the time of demotion, can replay the stale token to obtain a new access token retaining the higher-privilege role (such as DomainAdmin or SysAdmin) until natural token expiry. | |
| Title | SmarterMail < Build 9777 Stale JWT Role Claim Privilege Escalation via Refresh Token | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-613 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published: 2026-10-09T15:08:23.453Z
Updated: 2026-10-27T01:30:37.477Z
Reserved: 2026-10-01T18:02:50.085Z
Link: CVE-2026-104084
Updated: 2026-10-09T19:38:21.818Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-10-09T16:17:21.153
Modified: 2026-10-12T14:17:09.200
Link: CVE-2026-104084
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