CVE-2026-77337
CVE-2026-77337 · CakePHP: Potential Authentication bypass with CookieAuthenticator
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CakePHP Authentication is an authentication plugin for CakePHP that can also be used in PSR-7 based applications. Versions before 2.11.2, from 3.0.0 through 3.3.6, and from 4.0.0 through 4.2.0 allow authentication bypass and potential CPU or memory exhaustion when CookieAuthenticator uses unencrypted, forgeable legacy tokens. This issue is fixed in versions 2.11.2, 3.3.7, and 4.2.1.
CVSS 9.1 · Critical · EPSS 0.7%
- Published
- Updated
Stack: system
Affected products and versions
authentication
- Versions
- < 2.11.2: Affected
- >= 3.0.0, < 3.3.7: Affected
- >= 4.0.0, < 4.2.1: Affected
No fix published
cakephp Debian:11
- Versions
- 2.10.11-2.1
- 2.10.24-1
- 2.10.24-2
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
cakephp Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
- Versions
- 2.7.2-1
- 2.8.0-1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
cakephp Ubuntu:20.04:LTS
- Versions
- 2.10.11-2
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
cakephp Ubuntu:22.04:LTS
- Versions
- 2.10.11-2.1
- 2.10.24-1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
Original sources
- https://github.com/cakephp/authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-h7xh-9h2x-2m37
- https://github.com/cakephp/authentication/pull/806
- https://github.com/cakephp/authentication/pull/807
- https://github.com/cakephp/authentication/commit/c94d9a5380e7f4fdf38d338a9de2223a5b087159
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-77337