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CVE-2026-49869

Kestra: Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution via Authentication Bypass in `AuthenticationFilter`

CVSS 10 CRITICALEPSS 0.7%CWE-184CWE-287CWE-78CWE-918
Vexday Risk Score
28Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 10EPSS 0.7%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch
Lifecycle
26 Jun 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
Kestra is an open-source, event-driven orchestration platform. Prior to 1.0.45 and 1.3.21, AuthenticationFilter in Kestra OSS uses request.getPath().endsWith("/configs") to whitelist the public configuration endpoint from Basic Auth. Because the check is a suffix match rather than an exact path match, any API path whose last segment is configs bypasses authentication entirely. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this to create and execute arbitrary workflows without credentials. Because Kestra ships with script execution plugins (plugin-script-shell, plugin-script-python, etc.) enabled by default, this directly results in unauthenticated Remote Code Execution as root inside the Kestra worker container. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.0.45 and 1.3.21.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
kestra-io · kestra

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