Weakness (CWE)
CWE-636: Not Failing Securely
When the product encounters an error condition or failure, its design requires it to fall back to a state that is less secure than other options that are available, such as selecting the weakest encryption algorithm or using the most permissive access control restrictions.
How to prevent it (1 mitigation)
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Architecture and Design
Subdivide and allocate resources and components so that a failure in one part does not affect the entire product.
Source: MITRE CWE-636
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High 7.5
JupyterLab before 4.6.2 Authentication Bypass via PyPIExtensionManager
JupyterLab versions >=4.6.0,<=4.6.1 and <=4.5.9 contain an allowlist/blocklist enforcement gap in PyPIExtensionManager.install(). A missing 'await' caused the is_install_allowed coroutine to never execute, so the extension allowlist/blocklist check was not en…
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High 8.2
Visual Studio Code Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Not failing securely ('failing open') in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature over a network.
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High 7.7
Livebook Teams identity check fails open when the deployment group is unresolvable, allowing unauthenticated access
Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open') vulnerability in livebook-dev livebook allows an unauthenticated network client to obtain full access to a Livebook server that enforces identity through Livebook Teams. A Livebook Agent or App Server connected to Liveboo…
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High 8.6
Fallback to second RAUC slot with default credentials
An unauthenticated remote attacker can enforce the system to fall back to a firmware partition with an insecure configuration including default credentials. This could allow the attacker to gain SSH access to the system as an unprivileged user "user-app". Cha…
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Medium 6.6
nono-cli'scregistry pack verification can fail open when provenance metadata is absent
## Summary Registry-installed nono packs are expected to be verified from local provenance metadata before they are used. Two files are relevant: - `~/.config/nono/packages/lockfile.json` - `~/.config/nono/packages/<namespace>/<pack>/.nono-trust.bundle` Testi…
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High 8.2
SCRAM: Silent channel-binding authentication downgrade via unsupported certificate algorithms
SCRAM (Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism) is part of the family of Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL, RFC 4422) authentication mechanisms. Prior to 3.3, a flaw in com.ongres.scram:scram-client and com.ongres.scram:scram-common al…
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Medium 6.3
Grav Flex-Objects < 1.4.3 Authorization Bypass via API
Grav Flex-Objects before version 1.4.3 contains a broken access control vulnerability in the admin-next REST API that allows authenticated users with only api.access permission to perform unauthorized CRUD operations on permission-less directories. Attackers …
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High 8.2
.NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Incorrect authorization in .NET allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature over a network.
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High 8.2
Silent channel-binding authentication downgrade via unsupported certificate algorithms
pgjdbc is an open source postgresql JDBC Driver. In releases 42.7.4 through 42.7.11, channelBinding=require connections can be silently downgraded from SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS with channel binding to plain SCRAM-SHA-256 without it, losing the man-in-the-middle pro…
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Critical 9.8CVE-2026-53913 Public exploit
Apache Camel Keycloak: KeycloakSecurityPolicy verifies the bearer access token only inside its role and permission checks, so in the default configuration the token is never verified and any non-null bearer value is accepted
Improper Authentication, Missing Authentication for Critical Function, Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open') vulnerability in Apache Camel Keycloak Component. The KeycloakSecurityPolicy of camel-keycloak guards a route by running KeycloakSecurityProcessor.bef…
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Medium 5.9
Traefik Kubernetes Ingress NGINX provider fails open when auth-secret resolution fails
Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. From 3.7.0-ea.1 until 3.7.5, there is a medium severity vulnerability in Traefik's Kubernetes Ingress NGINX provider that causes affected routes to fail open. When an Ingress explicitly enables BasicAuth or …
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Medium 5.9
Guzzle: Silent HTTPS-Proxy Downgrade to Cleartext
Guzzle is an extensible PHP HTTP client. Prior to 7.12.1, in certain configurations, traffic expected to be protected by TLS on the hop to the proxy is transmitted in cleartext. Proxy authentication credentials (the Proxy-Authorization header, proxy userinfo …
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Medium 5.4
OpenClaw < 2026.4.25 - Scope Bypass via Empty-Scope Device Re-pairing
OpenClaw before 2026.4.25 contains a scope containment bypass vulnerability in device re-pairing that allows authenticated operators to restore broader scopes than intended by submitting empty-scope re-pairing requests. Attackers can exploit this by sending r…
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Low 3.7
OpenClaw < 2026.5.6 - Missing Channel Type Validation in Mattermost Event Handlers
OpenClaw before 2026.5.6 contains an improper access control vulnerability in Mattermost event handlers that fails to validate channel type metadata. Attackers can bypass intended DM policy decisions by sending crafted Mattermost events missing channel type i…
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Low 2.4
Indian Scout Bobber 2025 Infotainment Digital Round skips PIN entry when WCM is silent at boot
Incorrect behavior order in the Infotainment / Digital Round display of the Indian Motorcycle Scout Bobber + Tech 2025 model year allows an adjacent-network attacker to bypass the PIN entry screen. The Infotainment uses presence of Wireless Control Module (WC…
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Low 2.4
Indian Scout Bobber 2025 Infotainment Digital Round skips PIN entry when WCM is silent at boot
Incorrect behavior order in the Infotainment / Digital Round display of the Indian Motorcycle Scout Bobber + Tech 2025 model year allows an adjacent-network attacker to bypass the PIN entry screen. The Infotainment uses presence of Wireless Control Module (WC…
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Low 3.5
MCP Registry: OCI ownership validation fails open on upstream rate limits, allowing attacker-controlled package claims
The MCP Registry provides MCP clients with a list of MCP servers, like an app store for MCP servers. Prior to 1.7.9, OCI ownership validation skips label-match check when upstream OCI registry returns HTTP 429, letting any authenticated publisher bind their i…
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High 7.6
net-imap vulnerable to STARTTLS stripping via invalid response timing
Net::IMAP implements Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) client functionality in Ruby. Prior to versions 0.3.10, 0.4.24, 0.5.14, and 0.6.4, a man-in-the-middle attacker can cause Net::IMAP#starttls to return "successfully", without starting TLS. This issu…
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High 7.5
OpenClaw < 2026.4.8 - strictInlineEval Approval Boundary Bypass via Approval-Timeout Fallback
OpenClaw before 2026.4.8 contains an approval-timeout fallback mechanism that bypasses strictInlineEval explicit-approval requirements on gateway and node exec hosts. Attackers can exploit this timeout fallback to execute inline eval commands that should requ…
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Medium 4.6
OpenClaw < 2026.3.31 - Fail-Open Security Scan Bypass in Plugin Installation
OpenClaw before 2026.3.31 contains a fail-open vulnerability in the plugin installation flow where security scan failures do not block installation. Attackers can exploit scan failures to install untrusted plugins when operators proceed despite visible scan w…
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Medium 6.5
OpenClaw < 2026.3.31 - Decompression Bomb Denial of Service via Image Pixel-Limit Guard Bypass
OpenClaw before 2026.3.31 contains a decompression bomb vulnerability in image processing that fails to properly enforce pixel-limit guards on sips. Attackers can exploit this by uploading oversized images to cause denial of service through excessive memory c…
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Critical 9.1
OpenViking < 0.3.9 Authentication Bypass via VikingBot OpenAPI
OpenViking prior to version 0.3.9 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the VikingBot OpenAPI HTTP route surface where the authentication check fails open when the api_key configuration value is unset or empty. Remote attackers with network acces…
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Medium 6.9
free5gc UDR fail-open request handling in PolicyDataSubsToNotifySubsIdPut may allow unintended subscription updates after input errors
free5GC is an open-source implementation of the 5G core network. In versions 4.2.1 and below of the UDR service, the PUT handler for updating Policy Data notification subscriptions at /nudr-dr/v2/policy-data/subs-to-notify/{subsId} does not return after reque…
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High 8.7
free5gc UDR improper path validation allows unauthenticated creation and modification of Traffic Influence Subscriptions
free5GC is an open-source implementation of the 5G core network. In versions 4.2.1 and below of the UDR service, the handler for creating or updating Traffic Influence Subscriptions checks whether the influenceId path segment equals subs-to-notify, but does n…
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High 8.7
free5gc UDR improper path validation allows unauthenticated access to Traffic Influence Subscriptions
free5GC is an open-source implementation of the 5G core network. In versions 4.2.1 and below of the UDR service, the handler for reading Traffic Influence Subscriptions checks whether the influenceId path segment equals subs-to-notify, but does not return aft…
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High 8.4
Helm's plugin verification fails open when .prov is missing, allowing unsigned plugin install
Helm is a package manager for Charts for Kubernetes. From 4.0.0 to 4.1.3, Helm will install plugins missing provenance (.prov file) when signature verification is required. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.1.4.
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High 7.5
fast-jwt accepts unknown `crit` header extensions (RFC 7515 §4.1.11 MUST violation)
fast-jwt provides fast JSON Web Token (JWT) implementation. In 6.1.0 and earlier, fast-jwt does not validate the crit (Critical) Header Parameter defined in RFC 7515 §4.1.11. When a JWS token contains a crit array listing extensions that fast-jwt does not und…
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Low 2.5
OpenClaw < 2026.3.11 - Credential Fallback Logic Bypass via Unavailable Local Auth SecretRefs
OpenClaw before 2026.3.11 contains a credential fallback vulnerability where unavailable local gateway.auth.token and gateway.auth.password SecretRefs are treated as unset, allowing fallback to remote credentials in local mode. Attackers can exploit misconfig…
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Low 1.7
pyOpenSSL allows TLS connection bypass via unhandled callback exception in set_tlsext_servername_callback
pyOpenSSL is a Python wrapper around the OpenSSL library. Starting in version 0.14.0 and prior to version 26.0.0, if a user provided callback to `set_tlsext_servername_callback` raised an unhandled exception, this would result in a connection being accepted. …
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Medium 4.9
Pass filter with Empty Table
An administrator may attempt to block all traffic by configuring a pass filter with an empty table. However, in UBR, an empty list does not enforce any restrictions and allows all network traffic to pass unfiltered.
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Medium 4.9
Use of wildcard (“*” or “all”) in Block list
An administrator may attempt to block all networks by specifying "\*" or "all" as the network identifier. However, these values are not supported and do not trigger any validation error. Instead, they are silently interpreted as network 0 which results in no …
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Critical 9.2
Snuffleupagus vulnerable to RCE on instances with upload validation enabled but without the VLD package
Snuffleupagus is a module that raises the cost of attacks against website by killing bug classes and providing a virtual patching system. On deployments of Snuffleupagus prior to version 0.13.0 with the non-default upload validation feature enabled and config…
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High 8.7
VTun-ng's failure to initialize encryption modules may cause reversion to plaintext
VTun-ng is a Virtual Tunnel over TCP/IP network. In versions 3.0.17 and below, failure to initialize encryption modules might cause reversion to plaintext due to insufficient error handling. The bug was first introduced in VTun-ng version 3.0.12. This is fixe…
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Medium 4.2
Windows BitLocker Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Windows BitLocker Information Disclosure Vulnerability
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High 7.5
Vault Vulnerable to Denial of Service When Processing Raft Join Requests
Vault Community and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) clusters using Vault’s Integrated Storage backend are vulnerable to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack through memory exhaustion through a Raft cluster join API endpoint . An attacker may send a large volume of req…
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High 8.8CVE-2024-43532 EPSS 12%
Remote Registry Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Remote Registry Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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Critical 9.8
Frontend Admin by DynamiApps <= 3.19.4 - Improper Missing Encryption Exception Handling to Form Manipulation
The Frontend Admin by DynamiApps plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to improper missing encryption exception handling on the 'fea_encrypt' function in all versions up to, and including, 3.19.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to manipulat…
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Medium 6.4
Vault TLS Cert Auth Method Did Not Correctly Validate OCSP Responses
Vault and Vault Enterprise TLS certificates auth method did not correctly validate OCSP responses when one or more OCSP sources were configured. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-2660, affects Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.14.0 and above, and is fixed in Vault 1.16…
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High 8.4
A vulnerability was reported in BIOS for ThinkPad P14s Gen 2, P15s Gen 2, T14 Gen 2, and T15 Gen 2 that could cause the…
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High 7.5
moby/moby's dockerd daemon encrypted overlay network may be unauthenticated
Moby is an open source container framework developed by Docker Inc. that is distributed as Docker, Mirantis Container Runtime, and various other downstream projects/products. The Moby daemon component (`dockerd`), which is developed as moby/moby, is commonly …