NebulaGraph exposes its runtime configuration over an unauthenticated HTTP service. Each daemon starts the web service defined in src/webservice/WebService.cpp, whose bind address defaults to all interfaces, and registers routes for reading and writing gflags alongside status and statistics. Neither the service nor its router carries any authentication, token check or address restriction. The read route returns the daemon's full set of runtime flag values, which includes the configured certificate, key and certificate-authority paths, the password file path, data directories and the transport-security enable flags. The write route parses a supplied map and applies each entry through the gflags runtime setter, so a caller able to reach the port can change the daemon's behaviour without restarting it, including disabling the transport-security flags, redirecting log files and altering flags such as failed_login_attempts and password_lock_time_in_secs. Public reports of this endpoint describe a single name, enable_authorize, being refused by the handler; at release 3.8.0 that refusal is not present and the handler applies every name it is given.
CVE-2026-81032
Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-08-26. a secondary CVSS source baseline 9.8; 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
- 9.8
- EG Score
- 9.8(high)
- EG Risk
- 75(Attend)EG Risk 75/100SSVC: Attend
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How it’s computedSeverity98% × 45%Exploitation40% × 40%Automatability100% × 15%Action: Remediate soon — notable exploitation risk. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 21%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 26, 2026
Last Modified
August 26, 2026
Advisory Details (5)
Auto-updated Aug 26, 2026Web service GET /flags and PUT /flags accept unauthenticated requests, leaking and rewriting runtime configuration · Issue #6157 · vesoft-inc/nebula · GitHub
https://github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula/issues/6157NebulaGraph through 3.8.0 Unauthenticated Read and Modification of Runtime Configuration | Advisories | VulnCheck
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nebulagraph-through-3.8.0-unauthenticated-read-and-modification-of-runtime-configurationnebula/src/webservice/WebService.cpp at v3.8.0 · vesoft-inc/nebula · GitHub
https://github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula/blob/v3.8.0/src/webservice/WebService.cppnebula/src/webservice/SetFlagsHandler.cpp at v3.8.0 · vesoft-inc/nebula · GitHub
https://github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula/blob/v3.8.0/src/webservice/SetFlagsHandler.cppGitHub - vesoft-inc/nebula: A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability · GitHub
https://github.com/vesoft-inc/nebulaVendor Advisories for CVE-2026-81032(1)
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