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Critical · 9.1 CVE-2026-27478 EUVD-2026-11304GHSA-qqcj-rghw-829x

Unity Catalog has a JWT Issuer Validation Bypass Allows Complete User Impersonation

Published Mar 11, 2026 · Updated Mar 12, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Unity Catalog is an open, multi-modal Catalog for data and AI. In 0.4.0 and earlier, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability exists in the Unity Catalog token exchange endpoint (/api/1.0/unity-control/auth/tokens). The endpoint extracts the issuer (iss) claim from incoming JWTs and uses it to dynamically fetch the JWKS endpoint for signature validation without validating that the issuer is a trusted identity provider.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
unitycatalog unitycatalog <= 0.4.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven io.unitycatalog:unitycatalog-server < 0.4.1 0.4.1 GHSA-qqcj-rghw-829x

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