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Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in eScriptorium

Type: advisorySources: OSV

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

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2026-18275
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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4 Nov 2026, 17:40 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in eScriptorium

core-osv · Original source

Published 6 Aug 2026, 15:11 UTC

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

osv:CVE-2026-18275
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-18275",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in eScriptorium",
    "summary": "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",
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    "severity": "medium",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:37.957063406Z",
      "provider": "osv",
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        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/18xxx/CVE-2026-18275.json",
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  "published_at": "2026-08-06T15:11:08.255+00:00"
}