🛡️ CVE-2026-60023 — answer

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-200 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
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Description

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Apache Answer.

This issue affects Apache Answer: through 2.0.1.

Deleted or pending answers could be retrieved by unauthorized users through the single-answer read path when the parent question remained visible, exposing answer content that should not have been accessible.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.0.2, which fixes the issue.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

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

Weakness class

CVE-2026-60023 is classified as CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information. Information that should stay internal is disclosed to someone who is not authorised to see it.

Affected software

CVE-2026-60023 is recorded against 1 package.

  • answer (fixed in 2.0.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 5 August 2026 and last revised on 6 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

lists.apache.org
www.openwall.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-200
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-08-05
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-08-06
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
answer — 2.0.2

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