High severity · published May 11, 2026
CVE-2026-42609
Grav: Administrative Account Disruption and Privilege De-escalation via User Overwrite Logic
8.1
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Grav is a file-based Web platform. Prior to 2.0.0-beta.2, a business logic vulnerability in the Grav Admin Panel allows a low-privileged user (with only user creation permissions) to overwrite existing accounts, including the primary administrator. By creating a new user with a username that already exists, the system updates the existing account's metadata and permissions instead of rejecting the request. This leads to a Denial of Service (DoS) on administrative functions and Privilege De-escalation of the root account. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.0.0-beta.2.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 40% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GR
grav · getgrav
< 2.0.0-beta.2 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42609
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-42609
Patch
https://github.com/getgrav/grav/commit/5a12f9be8314682c8713e569e330f11805d0a663
Patch
https://github.com/getgrav/grav/commit/c66dfeb5ff679a1667678c6335eb9ff3255dfc47
Patch
https://github.com/getgrav/grav/commit/d904efc33e03ebb597afde8d3368b28cf0423632
Exploit
https://github.com/getgrav/grav/security/advisories/GHSA-rr73-568v-28f8
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