Description
OpenCTI is an open source platform for managing cyber threat intelligence knowledge and observables. Prior to 6.9.7, an organization admin can escalate their privileges by adding a user from a different organization with higher privileges, to their own organization. This is due to incorrect ACL on userEdit relationAdd. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.9.7.
Published: 2026-05-26
Score: 7.2 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-q537-qhj4-wcjx OpenCTI: Privilege escalation via graphQL API is abusable by organization admins, due to incorrect ACL on userEdit relationAdd
History

Thu, 28 May 2026 14:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 27 May 2026 15:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Citeum
Citeum opencti
Weaknesses NVD-CWE-noinfo
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:citeum:opencti:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Citeum
Citeum opencti

Tue, 26 May 2026 20:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Opencti-platform
Opencti-platform opencti
Vendors & Products Opencti-platform
Opencti-platform opencti

Tue, 26 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description OpenCTI is an open source platform for managing cyber threat intelligence knowledge and observables. Prior to 6.9.7, an organization admin can escalate their privileges by adding a user from a different organization with higher privileges, to their own organization. This is due to incorrect ACL on userEdit relationAdd. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.9.7.
Title OpenCTI: Privilege escalation via graphQL API abusable by organization admins, due to incorrect ACL on userEdit relationAdd
Weaknesses CWE-284
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


Subscriptions

Citeum Opencti
Opencti-platform Opencti
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-28T14:02:34.018Z

Reserved: 2026-05-07T18:04:17.309Z

Link: CVE-2026-44730

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-05-28T14:02:30.344Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2026-05-26T18:16:51.023

Modified: 2026-06-17T10:51:17.137

Link: CVE-2026-44730

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-05-27T22:15:26Z

Weaknesses