CVE-2026-27478 PUBLISHED

Unity Catalog has a JWT Issuer Validation Bypass Allows Complete User Impersonation

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 19.02.2026 Published: 11.03.2026 Updated: 12.03.2026

Unity Catalog is an open, multi-modal Catalog for data and AI. In 0.4.0 and earlier, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability exists in the Unity Catalog token exchange endpoint (/api/1.0/unity-control/auth/tokens). The endpoint extracts the issuer (iss) claim from incoming JWTs and uses it to dynamically fetch the JWKS endpoint for signature validation without validating that the issuer is a trusted identity provider.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 9.1

Product Status

Vendor unitycatalog
Product unitycatalog
Versions
  • Version <= 0.4.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-290: Authentication Bypass by Spoofing CWE
  • CWE-346: Origin Validation Error CWE
  • CWE-1390: Weak Authentication CWE