High severity · published Sep 4, 2026
CVE-2026-85538
MISP Attribute Deletion Authorization Bypass Allows Users Without Modify Permissions to Delete Attributes
8.3
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An incorrect authorization vulnerability in MISP allowed authenticated users to delete attributes from events despite lacking the required perm_modify or perm_modify_org permissions.
The affected attribute deletion paths relied on organization membership checks performed by MispAttribute::deleteAttribute() but did not consistently enforce MISP's event modification authorization rules. Consequently, a user belonging to the organization associated with an event could potentially delete individual attributes or perform bulk attribute deletion even when their assigned role was not authorized to modify the event.
This created an inconsistency between attribute editing and deletion: editing an attribute correctly used MISP's ACL::canModifyEvent() authorization logic, whereas the affected deletion operations could bypass these permission checks.
An authenticated attacker with access to an affected MISP instance and membership in the organization owning an event could exploit this flaw to remove attributes from that event, potentially causing unauthorized modification or loss of threat intelligence data.
The patch introduces a common authorization check for all affected deletion paths. Before deletion, MISP now resolves the associated events and verifies that the current user is authorized to modify each event using the same authorization mechanism used by normal event and attribute modification operations.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 35% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MI
misp · misp
through 2.5.45 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-85538
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-85538
github.com
https://github.com/MISP/MISP/commit/d0a6f963f
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