An improper authentication vulnerability in the is_authenticated function (src/bolt/bolt_api.c) in FalkorDB before 4.20.0 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute graph queries without credentials through the Bolt endpoint. The function decides whether a password is required by issuing an empty AUTH command to Redis and treats only a WRONGPASS error as meaning that a password is required; any other error, such as LOADING while a dataset is being loaded, MASTERDOWN during replication failover, or OOM under memory pressure, causes the client to be treated as authenticated. Only deployments that enable the Bolt endpoint (BOLT_PORT, disabled by default) are affected.
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| Description | An improper authentication vulnerability in the is_authenticated function (src/bolt/bolt_api.c) in FalkorDB before 4.20.0 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute graph queries without credentials through the Bolt endpoint. The function decides whether a password is required by issuing an empty AUTH command to Redis and treats only a WRONGPASS error as meaning that a password is required; any other error, such as LOADING while a dataset is being loaded, MASTERDOWN during replication failover, or OOM under memory pressure, causes the client to be treated as authenticated. Only deployments that enable the Bolt endpoint (BOLT_PORT, disabled by default) are affected. | |
| Title | Authentication bypass in FalkorDB Bolt endpoint via fail-open AUTH probe error handling | |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-287 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:falkordb:falkordb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: securin
Published: 2026-10-09T05:08:13.092Z
Updated: 2026-10-15T16:06:12.963Z
Reserved: 2026-10-09T04:54:55.521Z
Link: CVE-2026-107910
Updated: 2026-10-15T16:06:08.996Z
Status : Deferred
Published: 2026-10-09T06:17:12.457
Modified: 2026-10-15T17:17:13.727
Link: CVE-2026-107910
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