CVE-2026-81818

Affected versions of Flowintel contain an authorization flaw in the administrative user-edit API. The existing authorization check correctly prevented an organization administrator from editing users in another organization, but it did not prevent them from editing a full administrator within their own organization. As a result, an org admin could modify that full administrator account, including changing its password. The upstream commit explicitly describes the issue as: “Org admin can change the password of a full admin in the same organization.” The fix adds a higher-privilege boundary check: if user_to_edit.is_admin(): return ... 403 so organization administrators can no longer modify full administrator accounts. Version impacted >=3.3.0

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/flowintel/flowintel/commit/ffe64d1133b7d84909a69661bd5fee607e9ce757.patch

Configurations

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History

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Information

Published : 2026-08-27 17:21

Updated : 2026-08-28 15:28

NVD link : CVE-2026-81818

Mitre link : CVE-2026-81818

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-81818

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-269

Improper Privilege Management

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