High severity · published May 11, 2026
CVE-2026-43913
Vaultwarden: Unconfirmed Owner Can Purge Entire Organization Vault
8.1
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Vaultwarden is a Bitwarden-compatible server written in Rust. Prior to 1.35.5, Vaultwarden allows an unconfirmed organization owner to purge the entire organization vault. The organization invite flow uses a two-step process: accepting an invite transitions membership from Invited to Accepted, and a separate confirmation by an existing owner upgrades it to Confirmed. The POST /api/ciphers/purge endpoint uses plain Headers and only checks that the membership type is Owner without verifying that the membership status is Confirmed. An authenticated user who has been invited as an organization owner and has accepted the invite and has not yet been confirmed can call this endpoint to hard-delete all ciphers and attachments in the organization,
causing immediate organization-wide data loss. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.35.5.
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)0.3% · higher than 19% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
VA
vaultwarden · dani-garcia
< 1.35.5 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43913
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43913
Exploit
https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/security/advisories/GHSA-937x-3j8m-7w7p
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