CVE-2026-66797 PUBLISHED

Apache CloudStack: Unauthorised comment creation and disclosure

Assigner: apache
Reserved: 27.07.2026 Published: 21.08.2026 Updated: 21.08.2026

Improper access control in CloudStack's annotation functionality allows unauthorized comment creation and disclosure.

The addAnnotation and listAnnotation APIs perform an ownership check when an entity's UUID is specified, but fail to honor its result correctly. This lets any authenticated user write annotations to, and disclose existing annotations/comments on, an entity they don't own by simply supplying its UUID.

This issue affects Apache CloudStack: from 4.15.0.0 through 4.20.3.0 and from 4.21.0.0 through 4.22.1.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.20.3.1 or 4.22.1.1 or later, which fixes the issue.

Product Status

Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product Apache CloudStack
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 4.16.0.0 to 4.20.3.0 (incl.)
  • affected from 4.21.0.0 to 4.22.1.0 (incl.)

Credits

  • Łukasz Bawolski <lukasz.bawolski@exea.pl> finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control CWE