CVE-2026-12593 Privilege escalation via forged API token creation in Axivion Dashboard OIDC/OAuth2/SSO subsystem
Attackers can forge API tokens for other users to escalate privileges to Administrator, potentially leading to code execution on the host system.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-12593?
CVE-2026-12593 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Qt Axivion, published on 9 Jul 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The implementation of an internal and undocumented Dashboard API endpoint (POST /api/users/~/{user}/tokens) forgot to ensure an HTTP request for creating an API Token for another user had sufficient permission to do so.
Precondition for successful exploitation was a preexisting internal user (with more privileges than the attacker), the attacker knowing its login name and the attacker being able to authenticate to the Dashboard via OAuth/OIDC. The attacker would then have had to forge a token creation API request on behalf of the other user and could have authenticated and finalized the token creation with their own OAuth/OIDC credentials. In the worst case, this would mean an attacker could have become Dashboard Administrator and been able to perform all administrative actions if the preexisting internal user had administrative privileges. In combination with a separate weakness, this could have further led to code execution on the host system running the Dashboard with the privileges of the OS-User running the Dashboard server.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-12593?
How do I fix CVE-2026-12593?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-12593 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2026-12593 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-12593 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2f7g-h2w3-wgvx.