# CVE-2026-35478: InvenTree has Arbitrary API Token Creation

> Authenticated users can create API tokens for any other user, including admins, by manipulating the user ID in API requests, leading to full account takeover.

- **Severity:** High 8.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-qh5j-c28q-c4rg

## What is CVE-2026-35478?

CVE-2026-35478 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in InvenTree, published on 8 Apr 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

InvenTree is an Open Source Inventory Management System. From 0.16.0 to before 1.2.7, any authenticated InvenTree user can create a valid API token attributed to any other user in the system — including administrators and superusers — by supplying the target's user ID in the user field of a POST /api/user/tokens/ request. The returned token is immediately usable for full API authentication as the target user, from any network location, with no further interaction required. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.2.7 and 1.3.0.

Weakness: CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-35478?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Inventree Project Inventree.

## How do I fix CVE-2026-35478?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-35478 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2026-35478 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-35478 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in InvenTree

- [CVE-2022-2111](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2111/): Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type in inventree/inventree (critical 9.0)
- [CVE-2022-2112](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2112/): Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File in inventree/inventree (critical 9.0)
- [CVE-2022-2113](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2113/): Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in inventree/inventree (high 8.4)
- [CVE-2022-3355](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3355/): Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in inventree/inventree (high 8.2)
- [CVE-2026-33530](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-33530/): InvenTree Vulnerable to ORM Filter Injection (high 7.7)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-35478 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-35478 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in InvenTree, published on 8 Apr 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-35478 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: InvenTree. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-35478/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-35478/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-35478
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35478
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-35478

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-35478/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.