mediumCVSS 4.3Vulnerability

CVE-2026-77425

## Summary Unleash scopes write permissions per project and per environment: a user with the `UPDATE_FEATURE_STRATEGY` permission on project `A` is supposed to be able to mutate activation strategies only within project `A`. The endpoint `POST /api/admin/projects/:projectId/features/:featureName/environments/:environment/strategies/set-sort-order` violates this. The RBAC middleware authorizes the request against the `:projectId` taken from the URL, but the handler then writes the strategy IDs supplied in the request *body* directly to the database by primary key, **without ever verifying that those strategy IDs actually belong to the URL's project / feature / environment**. A low-privilege member of any one project can therefore reorder the activation strategies of features in *any other project and environment* — including projects they have no role on at all — by putting their own project in the URL (to satisfy RBAC) and the victim project's strategy IDs in the body. The sibling write paths in the same service (`updateStrategy`, `patchStrategy`, `deleteStrategy`) all call `validateUpdatedProperties()`, which rejects a strategy whose stored `projectId`/`featureName` does not match the URL context. The `set-sort-order` handler is the one sibling that omits this check — an asymmetric, incomplete enforcement. Activation-strategy ordering is security-relevant: the first matching strategy determines a flag's rollout/variant outcome, so an attacker can flip which strategy "wins" for another team's feature flag in production. As a secondary effect, the operation that mutates the victim's strategies is recorded (if at all) under the *attacker's* project/feature context, so the tampering does not appear in the victim project's audit trail. ## Affected code (v8.0.0) The route is registered with the project-scoped permission `UPDATE_FEATURE_STRATEGY` (correct), and the handler forwards the URL params as the "context" plus the raw request body: `src/lib/features/feature-t

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-5ffh-6f9q-5hhr
severity
medium
summary
Unleash: A project member can reorder activation strategies belonging to any other project / environment (cross-project integrity write), bypassing project RBAC and the audit log
cvss_score
4.3
cve_id
CVE-2026-77425
cvss_vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
signal_observed_at
2026-09-23T04:35:57+00:00
is_ghsa_only
false
ghsa_published
2026-09-22T20:36:39Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5ffh-6f9q-5hhr
ghsa_updated
2026-09-22T20:36:41Z

Related Entities (5)

HAS_WEAKNESS (2)

[Weakness]Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
[Weakness]Incorrect Authorization

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

VULNERABLE_TO (1)

[Software]npm/unleash-server

AFFECTS (1)

[Software]npm/unleash-server

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