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Crabbox < v0.12.0 Authentication Bypass via Header Spoofing

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Crabbox prior to v0.12.0 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows non-admin shared-token callers to impersonate other owners or organizations by spoofing identity headers. Attackers can inject malicious X-Crabbox-Owner and X-Crabbox-Org headers in requests authenticated with a shared token to bypass authorization checks and access owner/org-scoped lease operations belonging to victim accounts.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2026-8621
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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Updated in this feed
7 Nov 2026, 16:29 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Crabbox < v0.12.0 Authentication Bypass via Header Spoofing

core-osv · Original source

Published 14 May 2026, 18:46 UTC

Crabbox prior to v0.12.0 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows non-admin shared-token callers to impersonate other owners or organizations by spoofing identity headers. Attackers can inject malicious X-Crabbox-Owner and X-Crabbox-Org headers in requests authenticated with a shared token to bypass authorization checks and access owner/org-scoped lease operations belonging to victim accounts.

osv:CVE-2026-8621
Complete source record
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  "published_at": "2026-05-14T18:46:43.23+00:00"
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