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High · 8.8 CVE-2026-41133 EUVD-2026-24574GHSA-66hx-chf7-3332PYSEC-2026-2990

pyLoad has Stale Session Privilege After Role/Permission Change (Privilege Revocation Bypass)

Published Apr 21, 2026 · Updated Apr 22, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

pyLoad is a free and open-source download manager written in Python. Versions up to and including 0.5.0b3.dev97 cache `role` and `permission` in the session at login and continues to authorize requests using these cached values, even after an admin changes the user's role/permissions in the database. As a result, an already logged-in user can keep old (revoked) privileges until logout/session expiry, enabling continued privileged actions. This is a core authorization/session-consistency issue and is not resolved by toggling an optional security feature. Commit e95804fb0d06cbb07d2ba380fc494d9ff89b68c1 contains a fix for the issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
pyload pyload <= 0.5.0b3.dev97 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI pyload-ng <= 0.5.0b3.dev97 — GHSA-66hx-chf7-3332

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