OpenCVE

Improper Privilege Management, Improper Access Control vulnerability in Apache IoTDB. Authenticated users can escalate to full tree-path access by renaming themselves to __internal_auditor. This issue affects Apache IoTDB: from 2.0.8 before 2.0.10. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.0.10, which fixes the issue.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Apache	Iotdb

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References

Link	Providers
https://lists.apache.org/thread/65hh7dh28rcxlzdzwdpt630321tr8b61

History

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Apache Apache iotdb
Vendors & Products		Apache Apache iotdb

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		Improper Privilege Management, Improper Access Control vulnerability in Apache IoTDB. Authenticated users can escalate to full tree-path access by renaming themselves to __internal_auditor. This issue affects Apache IoTDB: from 2.0.8 before 2.0.10. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.0.10, which fixes the issue.
Title		Apache IoTDB: Authenticated users can escalate to full tree-path access by renaming themselves to __internal_auditor
Weaknesses		CWE-269 CWE-284
References		https://lists.apache.org/thread/65hh7dh28rcxlzdzwdpt630321tr8b61

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published: 2026-07-10T07:15:07.119Z

Updated: 2026-07-10T17:56:44.976Z

Reserved: 2026-04-08T09:06:05.914Z

Link: CVE-2026-40009

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-07-10T14:54:58.060Z

NVD

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Redhat

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