Advisory record · GHSA-qqcj-rghw-829x

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

CVSS 9.1 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0021 · 10th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.1: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 11 May 2026, 17:58 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
io.unitycatalog:unitycatalog-serverMaven<0.4.10.4.1
Identifiers
GHSA-qqcj-rghw-829x · CVE-2026-27478
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-290 · CWE-346 · CWE-1390
Published
11 May 2026
Updated
11 May 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Unity Catalog (io.unitycatalog:unitycatalog-server) versions before 0.4.1 are vulnerable. The token exchange endpoint fetches signing keys from whatever issuer is named in an incoming JWT without checking that the issuer is trusted, and it also skips audience validation. An attacker who can reach the server can sign a token with their own key, claim any known user, and obtain an internal access token that grants that user's catalog and table permissions. Upgrade to version 0.4.1 or later.

Written 3 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.1 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CNA (GitHub_M)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0021, the 10th percentile, on 10 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:20 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:20 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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