Improper Authentication
CWE-287
When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.
We track 1,836 vulnerabilities of this type. 100% are rated high or critical, and the average CVSS score is 8.7. 52 have been exploited in real attacks.
How this weakness is prevented
- Architecture and Design: Use an authentication framework or library such as the OWASP ESAPI Authentication feature.
Latest Improper Authentication vulnerabilities
- 8.2 High severity
minio: Improper Authentication
MinIO is a high-performance object storage system. Starting in RELEASE.2023-05-18T00-05-36Z and prior to RELEASE.2026-04-11T03-20-12Z, an authentication bypass vulnerability in MinIO's `STREAMING-UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD-TRAILER` code path allows any user who knows a
- 8.2 High severity
minio: Improper Authentication
MinIO is a high-performance object storage system. Starting in RELEASE.2023-05-18T00-05-36Z and prior to RELEASE.2026-04-11T03-20-12Z, an authentication bypass vulnerability in MinIO's Snowball auto-extract handler (`PutObjectExtractHandler`) allows any user w
- 9.2 Critical severity
oxia: Improper Authentication
Oxia is a metadata store and coordination system. Prior to 0.16.2, the OIDC authentication provider unconditionally sets SkipClientIDCheck: true in the go-oidc verifier configuration, disabling the standard audience (aud) claim validation at the library level.
- 9.1 Critical severity
frp: Improper Authentication
frp is a fast reverse proxy. From 0.43.0 to 0.68.0, frp contains an authentication bypass in the HTTP vhost routing path when routeByHTTPUser is used as part of access control. In proxy-style requests, the routing logic uses the username from Proxy-Authorizati
- 7.6 High severity
OpenHarness: Improper Authentication
HKUDS OpenHarness prior to PR #159 remediation contains a session key derivation vulnerability that allows authenticated participants in shared chats or threads to hijack other users' sessions by exploiting a shared ohmo session key that lacks sender identity
- 9.1 Critical severity
roxy-wi: Improper Authentication
Roxy-WI is a web interface for managing Haproxy, Nginx, Apache and Keepalived servers. In versions up to and including 8.2.8.2, when LDAP authentication is enabled, Roxy-WI constructs an LDAP search filter by directly concatenating the user-supplied login user
- 7.3 High severity
rowboat: Improper Authentication
A security vulnerability has been detected in rowboatlabs rowboat up to 0.1.67. This impacts the function tool_call of the file apps/experimental/tools_webhook/app.py of the component tools_webhook. Such manipulation of the argument X-Tools-JWE leads to improp
- 7.3 High severity
SuperAGI: Improper Authentication
A flaw has been found in TransformerOptimus SuperAGI up to 0.0.14. Affected by this issue is the function get_vector_db_details of the file superagi/controllers/vector_dbs.py of the component Vector Database Management Endpoint. Executing a manipulation can le
- 7.3 High severity
DjangoBlog: Improper Authentication
A vulnerability was identified in liangliangyy DjangoBlog up to 2.1.0.0. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file owntracks/views.py of the component logtracks Endpoint. The manipulation leads to missing authentication. The attack can be initiat
- 7.3 High severity
KodExplorer: Improper Authentication
A vulnerability was identified in kodcloud KodExplorer up to 4.52. This impacts the function fileGet of the file /app/controller/share.class.php of the component fileGet Endpoint. Such manipulation of the argument fileUrl leads to improper authentication. The
- 7.2 High severity
PowerProtect Data Domain: Improper Authentication
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain with Data Domain Operating System (DD OS) of Feature Release versions 8.4 through 8.5 contain an improper authentication vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with remote access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, le
- 8.1 High severity
FortiSOAR on-premise: Missing Authorization
A improper authentication vulnerability in Fortinet FortiSOAR PaaS 7.6.0 through 7.6.3, FortiSOAR PaaS 7.5.0 through 7.5.2, FortiSOAR on-premise 7.6.0 through 7.6.3, FortiSOAR on-premise 7.5.0 through 7.5.2 may allow an unauthenticated attacker to bypass authe
- 7.3 High severity
chatgpt-on-wechat CowAgent: Improper Authentication
A vulnerability was detected in zhayujie chatgpt-on-wechat CowAgent up to 2.0.4. This affects an unknown function of the component Agent Mode Service. Performing a manipulation results in missing authentication. The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploi
- 7.3 High severity
chatgpt-on-wechat CowAgent: Improper Authentication
A weakness has been identified in zhayujie chatgpt-on-wechat CowAgent 2.0.4. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Administrative HTTP Endpoint. This manipulation causes missing authentication. It is possible to initiate the attack remot
- 7.5 High severity
ajenti: Improper Authentication
ajenti.plugin.core defines all necessary core elements to allow Ajenti to run properly. Prior to 0.112, if the 2FA was activated, it was possible to bypass the password authentication This vulnerability is fixed in 0.112.
- 9.1 Critical severity
vikunja: Improper Authentication
Vikunja is an open-source self-hosted task management platform. Prior to 2.3.0, the OIDC callback handler issues a full JWT token without checking whether the matched user has TOTP two-factor authentication enabled. When a local user with TOTP enrolled is matc
- 9.1 Critical severity
Apache Tomcat: Improper Authentication
CLIENT_CERT authentication does not fail as expected for some scenarios when soft fail is disabled vulnerability in Apache Tomcat, Apache Tomcat Native. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.18, from 10.1.0-M7 through 10.1.52, from 9.0.
- 7.1 High severity
passport: Improper Authentication
Laravel Passport provides OAuth2 server support to Laravel. From 13.0.0 to before 13.7.1, there is an Authentication Bypass for client_credentials tokens. the league/oauth2-server library sets the JWT sub claim to the client identifier (since there's no user).
- 7.1 High severity
lobehub: Improper Authentication
LobeHub is a work-and-lifestyle space to find, build, and collaborate with agent teammates that grow with you. Prior to 2.1.48, the webapi authentication layer trusts a client-controlled X-lobe-chat-auth header that is only XOR-obfuscated, not signed or otherw
- 7.4 High severity
Eclipse Jetty: Sensitive Information in Resource Not Removed Before Reuse
In Eclipse Jetty, the class JASPIAuthenticator initiates the authentication checks, which set two ThreadLocal variable. Upon returning from the initial checks, there are conditions that cause an early return from the JASPIAuthenticator code without clearing th
- 8.8 High severity
PolarLearn: Improper Authentication
PolarLearn is a free and open-source learning program. In 0-PRERELEASE-15 and earlier, POST /api/v1/auth/sign-in creates a valid session for banned accounts before verifying the supplied password. That session is then accepted across authenticated /api routes,
- 9.8 Critical severity
rack-session: Improper Authentication
Rack::Session is a session management implementation for Rack. From 2.0.0 to before 2.1.2, Rack::Session::Cookie incorrectly handles decryption failures when configured with secrets:. If cookie decryption fails, the implementation falls back to a default decod
- 7.3 High severity
A8000R: Improper Authentication
A vulnerability was identified in Totolink A8000R 5.9c.681_B20180413. This issue affects the function setLanguageCfg of the file /cgi-bin/cstecgi.cgi. Such manipulation of the argument langType leads to missing authentication. The attack can be launched remote
- 9.1 Critical severity
litellm: Improper Authentication
LiteLLM is a proxy server (AI Gateway) to call LLM APIs in OpenAI (or native) format. Prior to 1.83.0, when JWT authentication is enabled (enable_jwt_auth: true), the OIDC userinfo cache uses token[:20] as the cache key. JWT headers produced by the same signin
- 7.3 High severity
gpt-researcher: Improper Authentication
A vulnerability was found in assafelovic gpt-researcher up to 3.4.3. This impacts an unknown function of the component HTTP REST API Endpoint. Performing a manipulation results in missing authentication. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The expl
- 7.3 High severity
JeecgBoot: Improper Authentication
A security vulnerability has been detected in JeecgBoot 3.9.0/3.9.1. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file jeecg-boot/jeecg-module-system/jeecg-system-biz/src/main/java/org/jeecg/modules/airag/JeecgBizToolsProvider.java of the component AI Ch
- 9.8 Critical severity
HI-LED-WR120-G2: Improper Authentication
A vulnerability was determined in Technostrobe HI-LED-WR120-G2 5.5.0.1R6.03.30. The affected element is the function index_config of the file /LoginCB. This manipulation causes improper authentication. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploi
- 8.8 High severity
oauthenticator: Improper Authentication
OAuthenticator is software that allows OAuth2 identity providers to be plugged in and used with JupyterHub. Prior to version 17.4.0, an authentication bypass vulnerability in oauthenticator allows an attacker with an unverified email address on an Auth0 tenant
- 8.1 High severity
Linux: Improper Authentication
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix krb5 mount with username option Customer reported that some of their krb5 mounts were failing against a single server as the client was trying to mount the shares with wrong c
- 7.5 High severity
webmail: Improper Authentication
Bulwark Webmail is a self-hosted webmail client for Stalwart Mail Server. Prior to version 1.4.10, the verifyIdentity() function contained logic that returned true if no session cookies were present. This allowed unauthenticated attackers to bypass security ch
- 9.8 Critical severity
Hirschmann HiEOS LRS11: Improper Authentication
Hirschmann HiEOS devices versions prior to 01.1.00 contain an authentication bypass vulnerability in the HTTP(S) management module that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to gain administrative access by sending specially crafted HTTP(S) requests. Attacke
- 8.8 High severity
Tapo C520WS v2.6: Improper Authentication
An authentication bypass vulnerability within the HTTP handling of the DS configuration service in TP-Link Tapo C520WS v2.6 and C210 v3 was identified, due to inconsistent parsing and authorization logic in JSON requests during authentication check. An unauthe
- 9.8 Critical severity
panel: Improper Authentication
Convoy is a KVM server management panel for hosting businesses. From version 3.9.0-beta to before version 4.5.1, the JWTService::decode() method did not verify the cryptographic signature of JWT tokens. While the method configured a symmetric HMAC-SHA256 signe
- 7.3 High severity
vanna: Improper Authentication
A vulnerability was detected in vanna-ai vanna up to 2.0.2. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /api/vanna/v2/ of the component Chat API Endpoint. Performing a manipulation results in missing authentication. The attack can be
- 9.8 Critical severity
Verify Identity Access Container: Improper Authentication
IBM Verify Identity Access Container 11.0 through 11.0.2 and IBM Security Verify Access Container 10.0 through 10.0.9.1 and IBM Verify Identity Access 11.0 through 11.0.2 and IBM Security Verify Access 10.0 through 10.0.9.1 under certain load conditions could
- 8.2 High severity
Flask-HTTPAuth: Improper Authentication
Flask-HTTPAuth provides Basic, Digest and Token HTTP authentication for Flask routes. Prior to version 4.8.1, in a situation where the client makes a request to a token protected resource without passing a token, or passing an empty token, Flask-HTTPAuth would
- 9.8 Critical severity
cronmaster: Improper Authentication
Cr*nMaster (cronmaster) is a Cronjob management UI with human readable syntax, live logging and log history for cronjobs. Prior to version 2.2.0, an authentication bypass in middleware allows unauthenticated requests with an invalid session cookie to be treate
- 9.1 Critical severity
Order Notification for WooCommerce: Improper Authentication
The Order Notification for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 3.6.3 overrides WooCommerce's permission checks to grant full access to all unauthenticated requests, enabling complete read/write access to store resources like products, coupons, and customers.
- 9.8 Critical severity
XenForo: Improper Authentication
XenForo before 2.3.7 contains a security issue affecting Passkeys that have been added to user accounts. An attacker may be able to compromise the security of Passkey-based authentication.
- 7.1 High severity
minio: Improper Authentication
MinIO is a high-performance object storage system. Prior to version RELEASE.2026-03-26T21-24-40Z, a flaw in extractMetadataFromMime() allows any authenticated user with s3:PutObject permission to inject internal server-side encryption metadata into objects by