CVE-2026-66797

Improper access control in CloudStack's annotation functionality allows unauthorized comment creation and disclosure. The addAnnotation and listAnnotation APIs perform an ownership check when an entity's UUID is specified, but fail to honor its result correctly. This lets any authenticated user write annotations to, and disclose existing annotations/comments on, an entity they don't own by simply supplying its UUID. This issue affects Apache CloudStack: from 4.15.0.0 through 4.20.3.0 and from 4.21.0.0 through 4.22.1.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.20.3.1 or 4.22.1.1 or later, which fixes the issue.

CVSS v3 5.4 MEDIUM

5.4^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 2.5

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://lists.apache.org/thread/g6cwddtjrwbh1d56wjz4cfp3fzfm4kbc	Mailing List Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

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History

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Information

Published : 2026-08-21 09:16

Updated : 2026-08-27 20:02

NVD link : CVE-2026-66797

Mitre link : CVE-2026-66797

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-66797

JSON object : View

Products Affected

apache

cloudstack

CWE

CWE-284

Improper Access Control

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