🛡️ CVE-2026-55843 — snipe-it

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-269 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Snipe-IT is an IT asset/license management system. Prior to 8.6.0, UsersController::update() passes a missing permission request field through NormalizePermissionsPayloadAction and PreserveUnauthorizedPrivilegedPermissionsAction in a way that can overwrite a target user’s permissions with a sparse result, allowing an administrator updating another administrator, or a user with users.edit updating a regular account, to remove the target’s administrative or granular permissions. This issue is fixed in version 8.6.0.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-55843 is classified as CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management. Privileges are assigned, dropped or restored incorrectly, leaving an actor with more access than intended.

Affected software

CVE-2026-55843 is recorded against 1 package.

  • snipe-it (fixed in 8.6.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 10 July 2026 and last revised on 13 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 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-269
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-07-10
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-13

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
snipe-it — 8.6.0

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