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FKIE_CVE-2026-75542

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-24 21:17 - Updated: 2026-08-25 20:17

Severity

8.3 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N

Summary

Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in the OAuth token endpoint in hexpm hexpm allows an API key holding the repositories permission to read another organization's private packages. When an API key is exchanged for a token through the OAuth client_credentials grant, validate_scopes_against_key/2 in lib/hexpm_web/controllers/api/oauth_controller.ex admits a requested scope whenever the key carries the repositories permission and the scope string begins with repository:. The organization name is never resolved against the principal, and expand_repositories_scope/3 only rewrites the literal repositories scope, so an explicit repository:<name> passes through untouched. Both CDN edges authorize repository access from the token claim without querying the database, so the minted token is read access to that organization's private packages until it expires. This issue affects hex.pm: from 2025-10-18 before 2026-08-24.

References

	URL	Tags
	6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db	https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-75542.html
	6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db	https://github.com/hexpm/hexpm/commit/bf0fb9d208f0acfabf7a2f7467c8231659e322a8
	6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db	https://github.com/hexpm/hexpm/security/advisories/GHSA-rfx8-w654-8cpr
	6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db	https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-75542
	134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0	https://github.com/hexpm/hexpm/security/advisories/GHSA-rfx8-w654-8cpr

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2026-75542 (GCVE-0-2026-75542)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-24 20:14 – Updated: 2026-08-25 19:53

Title

OAuth token exchange grants repository scopes for organizations the principal cannot access

Summary

Severity

8.3 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-25 19:53 UTC

CWE

CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization

Assigner

EEF mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/hexpm/hexpm/security/advisorie…	vendor-advisoryrelated
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-75542.html	related
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-75542	related
https://github.com/hexpm/hexpm/commit/bf0fb9d208f…	patch

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
hexpm	hexpm	Affected: 2025-10-18 , < 2026-08-24 (date) cpe:2.3:a:hexpm:hexpm::::::::
hexpm	hexpm	Affected: 71829cb6f6559bcceb1ef4e43a2fb8cdd3af654b , < bf0fb9d208f0acfabf7a2f7467c8231659e322a8 (git) cpe:2.3:a:hexpm:hexpm::::::::

Credits

Eric Meadows-Jönsson Eric Meadows-Jönsson Jonatan Männchen / EEF

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CVE-2026-75542 (GCVE-0-2026-75542)

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