CVE-2026-27128 PUBLISHED

Craft CMS's race condition in Token Service potentially allows for token usage greater than the token limit

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 17.02.2026 Published: 24.02.2026 Updated: 24.02.2026

Craft is a content management system (CMS). In versions 4.5.0-RC1 through 4.16.18 and 5.0.0-RC1 through 5.8.22, a Time-of-Check-Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition exists in Craft CMS’s token validation service for tokens that explicitly set a limited usage. The getTokenRoute() method reads a token’s usage count, checks if it’s within limits, then updates the database in separate non-atomic operations. By sending concurrent requests, an attacker can use a single-use impersonation token multiple times before the database update completes. To make this work, an attacker needs to obtain a valid user account impersonation URL with a non-expired token via some other means and exploit a race condition while bypassing any rate-limiting rules in place. For this to be a privilege escalation, the impersonation URL must include a token for a user account with more permissions than the current user. Versions 4.16.19 and 5.8.23 patch the issue.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 6.9

Product Status

Vendor craftcms
Product cms
Versions
  • Version >= 4.5.0-RC1, < 4.16.19 is affected
  • Version >= 5.0.0-RC1, < 5.8.23 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-367: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition CWE