Flowintel Missing Task-to-Case Authorization Allows Cross-Case Task Modification

published 2026-08-27 2 mo ago modified 2026-08-28 2 mo ago also EUVD-2026-67123

cvss: 7.2; version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 28%
public exploits: 0; none known

Affected versions of Flowintel contain an insecure direct object reference / broken object-level authorization issue across numerous task endpoints.

The routes generally received both a case identifier and a task identifier, but previously they did not enforce that the task actually belonged to the supplied case. As a result, an authenticated user with editor-level access to one case could potentially substitute the ID of a task from another case and invoke operations against that foreign task.

The patch introduces task_case_bound_required, which loads both objects and returns 404 unless the task belongs to the requested case. This protection is applied to edit, delete, note, assignment, status, file, export, MISP-linking, subtask, external-reference, and other task-related endpoints.

The fix also adds explicit checks that a requested note_id belongs to the current task before returning or exporting it, closing related cross-object access paths.

Version impacted =>3.3.0

Patch / fix

links 1

github.com/flowintel/flowintel@10676ee commit

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 2 mo ago (2026-08-27)

Exploit prediction

0.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 28% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	4.0	7.2	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA	4.0	7.2	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

flowintel flowintel

Classification

Weakness

CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

References

github.com /flowintel/flowintel/commit/10676eec7f1286d7ee0769546c772c5cb9c1c72b.patch
patch

Sources

CVE List CVE-2026-81817
NVD CVE-2026-81817

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Summary