CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in web services in Progress Sitefinity

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• progress sitefinity15.2.8400 and later · before 15.2.8441
• progress sitefinity15.3.8500 and later · before 15.3.8531
• progress sitefinity15.4.8600 and later · before 15.4.8630

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (ProgressSoftware). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Progress Software Sitefinity

  • 15.2.8400 and later · before 15.2.8441affected
  • 15.3.8500 and later · before 15.3.8531affected
  • 15.4.8600 and later · before 15.4.8630affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2017-9248Telerik.Web.UI.dll in Progress Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX before R2 2017 SP1 and Sitefinity before 10.0.6412.0 does not properly protect TeKEV
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• CVE-2017-15883Sitefinity 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, 9.x, and 10.x allow remote attackers to bypass authentication and consequently cause a denial
  40Plan
• CVE-2026-7198CWE-284: Improper Access Control in web services in Progress Sitefinity
  39Monitor
• CVE-2023-29375An issue was discovered in Progress Sitefinity 13.3 before 13.3.7647, 14.0 before 14.0.7736, 14.1 before 14.1.7826, 14.2 before 14.2.7930, a
  39Monitor
• CVE-2019-17392Progress Sitefinity 12.1 has a Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for a Forgotten Password because the HTTP Host header is mishandled.
  39Monitor
• CVE-2017-18179Progress Sitefinity 9.1 uses wrap_access_token as a non-expiring authentication token that remains valid after a password change or a sessio
  36Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The endpoint fetches the record by the ID sent in the request, but never checks whether the record belongs to the requesting user.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1const invoice = await Invoice.findById(req.params.id);2res.json(invoice);

1const invoice = await Invoice.findOne({2  id: req.params.id,3  ownerId: req.user.id,4});5if (!invoice) return res.sendStatus(404);6res.json(invoice);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.