Security advisory
Harbor API has a Broken Access Control vulnerability. The vulnerability allows project administrators to use the Harbor API to create a robot account with unauthorized push and/or pull access permissions to a project they don't have access or control for. The Harbor API did not enforce the proper project permissions and project scope on the API request to create a new robot account.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-16919
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:44 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Harbor API has a Broken Access Control vulnerability. The vulnerability allows project administrators to use the Harbor API to create a robot account with unauthorized push and/or pull access permissions to a project they don't have access or control for. The Harbor API did not enforce the proper project permissions and project scope on the API request to create a new robot account.
osv:CVE-2019-16919
Complete source record
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