Gokapi has privilege escalation via incomplete API-key permission revocation on user rank demotion

CVE-2026-29061 → View on GitHub ↗ View on CVE.org ↗ View on NVD ↗

Description

Summary

A privilege escalation vulnerability in the user rank demotion logic allows a demoted user's existing API keys to retain ApiPermManageFileRequests and ApiPermManageLogs permissions, enabling continued access to upload-request management and log viewing endpoints after the user has been stripped of all privileges.

Impact

Any user who previously held Admin rank and had API keys with ApiPermManageFileRequests or ApiPermManageLogs retains those capabilities after demotion. This allows offboarded or demoted users to:
- Create, list, and delete upload requests
- Read application logs and system status

Basic information

Type
reviewed
Severity
medium
Advisory on GitHub
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Repository advisory
Open repository advisory ↗
Source code
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Published (advisory)
2026-03-05 20:42:32 UTC
Updated
2026-03-08 08:38:00 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2026-03-05 20:42:32 UTC
NVD published
2026-03-06

EPSS Score

Score Percentile
0.02% 4.10%

CVSS Scores

Base score Version Severity Vector
5.4 3.1 —
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.

Identifiers

Type Value
GHSA GHSA-q658-hfpg-35qc ↗
CVE CVE-2026-29061 ↗

CWEs

CWE id Name
CWE-284 Improper Access Control

Credits

  • Sijisu (reporter)
  • aisafe-bot (finder)
  • Forceu (remediation_developer)

Affected packages (1)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem Package Vulnerable range First patched Vulnerable functions
go github.com/forceu/gokapi < 2.2.3 2.2.3 —

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence