Capgo before 12.128.2 allows org admins to assign org-scoped RBAC roles at app scope without validating role scope compatibility, including to pending invitees. Attackers can pre-seed malformed high-privilege bindings that survive invite acceptance, enabling accepted low-privilege users to perform unauthorized privileged app actions.
CVE-2026-56247
Score 8.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-07-01. a secondary CVSS source baseline 8.8; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 8.8
- EG Score
- 8.8(high)
- EPSS
- 22.1%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 1, 2026
Last Modified
July 1, 2026
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Jul 2, 2026Org admins can assign org-level RBAC roles at app scope, including to pending invitees, leading to end-to-end privilege escalation after invite acceptance · Advisory · Cap-go/capgo · GitHub
https://github.com/Cap-go/capgo/security/advisories/GHSA-55q2-p3m2-x66xCapgo - Privilege Escalation via Cross-Scope RBAC Role Assignment | Advisories | VulnCheck
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/capgo-privilege-escalation-via-cross-scope-rbac-role-assignmentVendor Advisories for CVE-2026-56247(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 34× in last 7d / 34× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-07 00:36 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-07 00:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 11:35 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-06 11:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-06 02:23 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-07-05 22:33 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-05 22:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-05 09:33 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-05 09:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-05 02:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-05 02:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-04 20:31 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-04 20:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-04 07:30 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-04 07:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-04 06:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-04 06:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-03 18:29 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-03 18:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-03 05:29 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-03 05:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-02 16:22 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-07-02 16:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-02 03:21 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-02 03:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-01 17:06 UTCNVD updateCVSS v4 → 8.7
- 2026-07-01 15:07 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-01 14:21 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-01 14:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-01 01:20 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-01 01:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
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