🛡️ CVE-2026-55478 — snipe-it

🟡 CVSS 5.4 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-639 NVD
5.4
CVSS Score
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Description

Snipe-IT is an IT asset/license management system. Prior to 8.6.2, POST /api/v1/kits/{kit_id}/licenses checks whether the caller can edit kits but does not authorize access to the referenced license object, allowing a low-privilege user with predefined-kit permissions to bind a license they should not be able to access or manage into a kit. This issue is fixed in version 8.6.2.

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. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-55478 is classified as CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key. An object is selected by an identifier from the request without checking the caller owns it.

Affected software

CVE-2026-55478 is recorded against 1 package.

  • snipe-it (fixed in 8.6.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 10 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-639
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-07-10
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-10

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
snipe-it — 8.6.2

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