🛡️ CVE-2026-45371 — kernel

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-285 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

SiYuan publish-mode Reader can mutate Conf and SQL index via 8 ungated APIs

Summary

SiYuan publish-mode Reader can mutate Conf and SQL index via 8 ungated APIs

POST /api/graph/getGraph, POST /api/graph/getLocalGraph, POST /api/sync/setSyncInterval, POST /api/storage/updateRecentDocViewTime, POST /api/storage/updateRecentDocCloseTime, POST /api/storage/updateRecentDocOpenTime, POST /api/storage/batchUpdateRecentDocCloseTime, and POST /api/search/updateEmbedBlock are registered with model.CheckAuth only, omitting both model.CheckAdminRole and model.CheckReadonly. Each of them writes server-side state, including atomic rewrites of <workspace>/conf/conf.json via model.Conf.Save(). Any caller whose JWT passes CheckAuth, including a publish-service RoleReader (the role assigned to anonymous publish visitors) and a RoleEditor against a workspace where Editor.ReadOnly = true, can hit them. This is the same root-cause class as the patched GHSA-6r88-8v7q-q4p2 and GHSA-4j3x-hhg2-fm2x.

Details

Affected: github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan, all tags up to and including v3.6.5 (HEAD 96dfe0be).

The router in kernel/api/router.go registers each endpoint below with model.CheckAuth only. Sibling endpoints in the same group are correctly gated, which makes the omission unambiguous:

```bash

kernel/api/router.go:87 /api/storage/updateRecentDocViewTime CheckAuth only

kernel/api/router.go:88 /api/storage/updateRecentDocCloseTime CheckAuth only

kernel/api/router.go:89 /api/storage/batchUpdateRecentDocCloseTime CheckAuth only

kernel/api/router.go:90 /api/storage/updateRecentDocOpenTime CheckAuth only

kernel/api/router.go:188 /api/search/updateEmbedBlock CheckAuth only

kernel/api/router.go:279 /api/sync/setSyncInterval CheckAuth only

kernel/api/router.go:400 /api/graph/getGraph CheckAuth only

kernel/api/router.go:401 /api/graph/getLocalGraph CheckAuth only

# Compare the gated siblings on adjacent lines:

kernel/api/router.go:278 /api/sync/setSyncEnable CheckAuth, CheckAdminRole, CheckReadonly

kernel/api/router.go:280 /api/sync/setSyncPerception CheckAuth, CheckAdminRole, CheckReadonly

kernel/api/router.go:281 /api/sync/setSyncGenerateConflictDoc CheckAuth, CheckAdminRole, CheckReadonly

kernel/api/router.go:398 /api/graph/resetGraph CheckAuth, CheckAdminRole, CheckReadonly

kernel/api/router.go:399 /api/graph/resetLocalGraph CheckAuth, CheckAdminRole, CheckReadonly

```

Per-handler evidence:

kernel/api/graph.go:53 getGraph. Despite the verb "get", the body unconditionally overwrites model.Conf.Graph.Global from caller-supplied JSON and persists the entire workspace conf.json:

```

graphConf, err := gulu.JSON.MarshalJSON(confArg)

...

global := conf.NewGlobalGraph()

gulu.JSON.UnmarshalJSON(graphConf, global)

model.Conf.Graph.Global = global // attacker-controlled write

model.Conf.Save() // atomic rewrite of conf.json

```

kernel/api/graph.go:106 getLocalGraph. Same pattern on model.Conf.Graph.Local. Note the legitimate writers resetGraph (graph.go:29) and resetLocalGraph (graph.go:41) only set the struct to its constructor default (NewGlobalGraph() / NewLocalGraph()), whereas getGraph / getLocalGraph accept the entire struct from the caller, so the unauthorized surface is strictly larger than the gated reset endpoints.

kernel/api/sync.go:597 setSyncInterval. Calls model.SetSyncInterval(int(interval)) (kernel/model/sync.go:394) which writes Conf.Sync.Interval, persists Conf.Save(), and reschedules the sync goroutine via planSyncAfter. The model layer clamps the interval to [30, 43200], but a Reader can still pin sync to either bound (30 s for battery and bandwidth pressure on every connected client, or 12 h to effectively suspend cloud sync without changing the UI toggle).

kernel/api/search.go:287 updateEmbedBlock. Calls model.UpdateEmbedBlock(id, content) (kernel/model/search.go:198), which validates only that the block type is BlockQueryEmbed and then forwards to updateEmbedBlockContent (kernel/model/index.go:342). That helper rewrites the SQL blocks row's content column for the given embed-block ID via sql.UpdateBlockContentQueue. There is no publish-access check, so any embed block ID anywhere in the workspace is writable. The SQL content column is what fullTextSearchBlock and getEmbedBlock read from, so a Reader can poison search results visible to other users.

kernel/api/storage.go:251,295,273,317 updateRecentDocViewTime / updateRecentDocCloseTime / updateRecentDocOpenTime / batchUpdateRecentDocCloseTime. Each rewrites the workspace recent-docs JSON file under recentDocLock (kernel/model/storage.go:171,213 ...). A Reader can register any rootID (including IDs in publish-private notebooks) into the recent-docs list, manipulating the admin's recently-opened-documents UI and history.

The bugs have all existed since v3.6.5 (the active release tag) and the live master branch. Two adjacent ad

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity high, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-45371 is classified as CWE-285: Improper Authorization. A request is carried out without confirming that the caller is permitted to perform it on that specific resource.

Affected software

CVE-2026-45371 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/kernel
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 2026 and last revised on 25 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-285
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-13
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-25
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/kernel
unknown

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