Vulnerability · Published Oct 8, 2026 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2026-93860

High 7.1

In plain English

A high-severity missing authorization in Mistral from OpenStack. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 36% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 4.0)7.1High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 64.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In OpenStack Mistral through 23.0.0, the /v2/maintenance API controller clears the request context and calls the maintenance service directly without any policy enforcement. Any holder of a valid Mistral token, regardless of assigned role, can read and change the service's cluster-wide maintenance state. Setting the state to PAUSED stops processing of new workflow and execution objects across all tenant projects until an operator restores it.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12mistralno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2026-93860
Debian:13mistralno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2026-93860
Debian:14mistral23.0.0-2DEBIAN-CVE-2026-93860
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSmistralno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-93860
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSmistralno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-93860
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSmistralno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-93860
Ubuntu:26.10mistralno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-93860

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
OpenStack Mistral 0 – before 20.1.121.0.0 – before 21.0.122.0.0 – before 22.0.123.0.0

Weakness: CWE-862 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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