A missing authorization flaw was found in Anitya. The user deletion endpoint checks that the caller is logged in but does not check that the caller is an administrator. Any authenticated user can delete arbitrary user accounts, including administrator accounts, which can remove administrative access to the service.
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Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:45:00 +0000
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Anitya
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Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:15:00 +0000
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| Description | A missing authorization flaw was found in Anitya. The user deletion endpoint checks that the caller is logged in but does not check that the caller is an administrator. Any authenticated user can delete arbitrary user accounts, including administrator accounts, which can remove administrative access to the service. | |
| Title | anitya: anitya: missing authorization check in delete_user allows any authenticated user to delete arbitrary users | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-862 | |
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