🛡️ CVE-2026-55516 — snipe-it

🟠 CVSS 7.7 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-639 NVD
7.7
CVSS Score
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Description

Snipe-IT is an IT asset/license management system. Prior to 8.6.2, PATCH or PUT /api/v1/maintenances/{maintenance_id} checks access to the current maintenance record and asset but then fills attacker-controlled fields including asset_id without re-authorizing the newly supplied asset, allowing an authorized user to move a maintenance record onto an asset outside their company scope. 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 changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-55516 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-2026-55516 is recorded against 1 package.

  • snipe-it (fixed in 8.6.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 10 July 2026 and last revised on 14 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 HIGH
CVSS Score 7.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-639
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-07-10
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-14

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
snipe-it — 8.6.2

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