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🛡️ CVE-2026-56091

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-289 NVD
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

When using Apache Shiro with the shiro-guice module in a web servlet context, a specially crafted HTTP request may cause an authentication bypass.

This vulnerability is similar to https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-1957 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord , except that it affects the shiro-guice module instead of the shiro-spring module.

This issue affects all Apache Shiro versions through 2.x, and 3.0.0-alpha-1 only when using shiro-guice module in a web servlet context.

Upgrade to version 3.0.0 or later, which fixes the issue.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-56091 is classified as CWE-289: Authentication Bypass by Alternate Name. The product performs authentication based on the name of a resource being accessed, or the name of the actor performing the access, but it does not properly check all possible names for that resource or actor.

Affected software

CVE-2026-56091 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 25 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

lists.apache.org

Other advisories for this package

unknown has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-289: Authentication Bypass by Alternate Name) in other software:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-289
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-06-25
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-25
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown

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