CVE-2026-48599: high-severity vulnerability in elixir-grpc grpc
Authorization bypass via path binding override in elixir-grpc/grpc HTTP transcoding
Published · Updated
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.6epss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 75% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in elixir-grpc grpc allows authenticated attackers to access or modify resources belonging to other users by smuggling a conflicting value for any path-bound field via the query string or request body.
In 'Elixir.GRPC.Server.Transcode':map_request/5 (lib/grpc/server/transcode.ex), all three clauses use Map.merge/2 with path bindings as the first argument, giving them the lowest merge precedence. A request such as GET /users/me/profile?user_id=victim (or a POST with {"user_id": "victim"} when body: "*") yields a decoded protobuf struct where the path-bound field carries the attacker-supplied value rather than the router-extracted value. Any handler that uses the path-bound field for authorization, multi-tenancy scoping, or ownership checks is silently bypassed.
This issue affects grpc: from 0.8.0 before 1.0.0.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
elixir-grpc · grpcRelated CVEs — elixir-grpc grpc
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-48853CRITICALRemote code execution and denial of service via unsafe Erlang term deserialization in elixir-grpc/grpcEPSS 0.8%CVE-2026-53430HIGHgrpc gzip decompression bomb in GRPC.Compressor.Gzip.decompress/1EPSS 0.5%CVE-2026-48854HIGHUnbounded request body accumulation causes memory exhaustion in elixir-grpc/grpcEPSS 0.5%
References
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-48599.htmlhttps://github.com/elixir-grpc/grpc/commit/33b6a095dbc91c6dee3c7b90893d7d74952e82e4https://github.com/elixir-grpc/grpc/commit/8aaf3d3a8c4c7b08ac65e9c6f254e0d24da1d048https://github.com/elixir-grpc/grpc/security/advisories/GHSA-mwr4-5g34-j5cqhttps://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-48599