A vulnerability was identified in Weaviate up to 1.37.7. This vulnerability affects the function validateConfig of the file usecases/auth/authentication/apikey/client.go of the component Static API Key Handler. The manipulation of the argument StaticApiKey leads to authorization bypass. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. It is stated that the exploitability is difficult. The exploit is publicly available and might be used. Upgrading to version 1.38.0-rc.0 is able to resolve this issue. The identifier of the patch is 40f2cc32279f0f8a51016c3c6870a2c0c808e6c0. You should upgrade the affected component.
CVE-2026-11500
Score 5.0 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: LOW) published 2026-06-08. a secondary CVSS source baseline 5.0; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 5.0
- EG Score
- 5.0(high)
- EPSS
- 20.0%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 8, 2026
Last Modified
June 8, 2026
Advisory Details (4)
Auto-updated Jun 17, 2026v1.38.0-rc.0 - HFresh, Namespaces, Nested Object Filtering, Alter Schema Reindex property
Patch available: weaviate/weaviate v1.38.0-rc.0 (pre-release)
https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/releases/tag/v1.38.0-rc.0Duplicate static API keys can authenticate as the wrong user · Issue #11392 · weaviate/weaviate · GitHub
https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/issues/11392commit 40f2cc32279f (weaviate/weaviate)
Fix landed in weaviate/weaviate commit 40f2cc32279f — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/commit/40f2cc32279f0f8a51016c3c6870a2c0c808e6c0GitHub - weaviate/weaviate: Weaviate is an open-source vector database that stores both objects and vectors, allowing for the combination of vector search with structured filtering with the fault tolerance and scalability of a cloud-native database. · GitHub
https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-11500(1)
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Weakness Classification(2)
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