Auth bypass in Escriptorium
CVE-2026-18275
Authorization bypass in the process and annotation taxonomy serializers in Scripta eScriptorium through 26.04.1 allows a remote authenticated user to run segmentation and transcription against other users' document parts, overwriting their content, via part primary keys supplied to a many=True related field whose queryset restriction was applied to the ManyRelatedField instead of its child_relation and therefore had no effect
Vulnerability class: IDOR (Insecure Direct Object Reference)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (33.2th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 33rd percentile — 33.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Escriptorium
- Scripta Escriptorium — versions 0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- gitlab.com/scripta/escriptorium/-/work_items/1228 (Issue Tracking)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-18275?
- CVE-2026-18275 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Escriptorium, classified under Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2026-08-06.
- How severe is CVE-2026-18275?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.