What is CVE-2026-40050?

CVE-2026-40050 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Crowdstrike Logscale Self-hosted, classified under Missing Authentication for Critical Function. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2026-04-21.

How severe is CVE-2026-40050?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Crowdstrike Logscale Self-hosted

CVE-2026-40050

CrowdStrike has released security updates to address a critical unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2026-40050) in LogScale. This vulnerability only requires mitigation by customers that host specific versions of LogScale and…

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

EPSS: 0.006 (68.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Crowdstrike Logscale Self-hosted — versions 1.224.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/security-advisories/cve-2026-40050/

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-40050?: CVE-2026-40050 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Crowdstrike Logscale Self-hosted, classified under Missing Authentication for Critical Function. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2026-04-21.
How severe is CVE-2026-40050?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.