Authentication Bypass in Gerapy (CVE-2026-16209)
Summary
Authentication bypass in Gerapy (CVE-2026-16209). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
A vulnerability has been found in Gerapy up to 0.9.13. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file gerapy/server/core/views.py of the component Project Upload Endpoint. Such manipulation leads to missing authentication. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The name of the patch is bd4891c60315f17611a3b7a651ffe0fba7cfe71e. Applying a patch is advised to resolve this issue.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-16209 has been found in Gerapy.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 7.3/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Gerapy CVE-2026-16209" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-16209 (Gerapy) — CWE-287 / CVSS v3 7.3
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
Authentication bypass (CWE-287) exists in Gerapy.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Gerapy.
Severity: High (CVSS 7.3/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Gerapy' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'Gerapy' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
Gerapyを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
References
- advisory vuldb.com
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- advisory vuldb.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory github.com
- patch github.com
- patch github.com
- report github.com
- report vuldb.com
- web github.com
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