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cve recordcritical

CVE-2026-18972

Published
CVSS9.6
Severitycritical
WeaknessCWE-290
ExploitedNot in CISA KEV

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Description

An authenticated attacker can spoof another GUI user's identity by sending their request with the custom header \"Grpc-Metadata-USER\". This can lead to an account takeover attack from a user with low privileges to administrator.

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