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High · 7.6 CVE-2026-48599 EEF-CVE-2026-48599EUVD-2026-37013GHSA-mwr4-5g34-j5cq

Authorization bypass via path binding override in elixir-grpc/grpc HTTP transcoding

Published Jun 15, 2026 · Updated Sep 24, 2026 · Assigned by EEF

Description

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in elixir-grpc grpc allows authenticated attackers to access or modify resources belonging to other users by smuggling a conflicting value for any path-bound field via the query string or request body.

In 'Elixir.GRPC.Server.Transcode':map_request/5 (lib/grpc/server/transcode.ex), all three clauses use Map.merge/2 with path bindings as the first argument, giving them the lowest merge precedence. A request such as GET /users/me/profile?user_id=victim (or a POST with {"user_id": "victim"} when body: "*") yields a decoded protobuf struct where the path-bound field carries the attacker-supplied value rather than the router-extracted value. Any handler that uses the path-bound field for authorization, multi-tenancy scoping, or ownership checks is silently bypassed.

This issue affects grpc: from 0.8.0 before 1.0.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
elixir-grpc grpc 0.8.0 – < 1.0.0 1.0.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex grpc >= 0.8.0, < 1.0.0 1.0.0 EEF-CVE-2026-48599

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