CWE-636— Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open')
When the product encounters an error condition or failure, its design requires it to fall back to a state that is less secure than other options that are available, such as selecting the weakest encryption algorithm or using the most permissive access control restrictions.— MITRE CWE catalog
69 active CVEs classified under this weakness category. Sourced from NVD, GHSA, and vendor advisories. Full definition on MITRE →
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- CVE-2026-53913CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82026-07-06
Improper Authentication, Missing Authentication for Critical Function, Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open') vulnerability in Apache Camel Keycloak Component. The KeycloakSecurityPolicy of camel-keycloak guards a route by running Keycloak…
- CVE-2026-22034CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82026-01-08
Snuffleupagus is a module that raises the cost of attacks against website by killing bug classes and providing a virtual patching system. On deployments of Snuffleupagus prior to version 0.13.0 with the non-default upload validation featur…
- CVE-2024-3729CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.82024-05-02
The Frontend Admin by DynamiApps plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to improper missing encryption exception handling on the 'fea_encrypt' function in all versions up to, and including, 3.19.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated a…
- CVE-2026-103510CRITICALCVSS 9.5EG 9.52026-10-05
P4 Search prior to 2026.4.2 does not fail securely when its service authentication token is blank. In affected configurations, an unauthenticated attacker with network access can obtain the highest application privilege, potentially leadin…
- CVE-2026-53459CRITICALCVSS 9.3EG 9.32026-09-15
Bambuddy is a self-hosted print archive and management system for Bambu Lab 3D printers. Starting in version 0.1.6 and prior to version 0.2.4.4, a fail-open in the authentication code allows any attacker to bypass authentication by floodin…
- CVE-2026-95848CRITICALCVSS 9.1EG 9.12026-09-23
Moquette is a lightweight Java MQTT broker. Prior to 0.18.1, when a configured authenticator or authorizator class cannot be loaded, Server.initializeAuthenticator and Server.initializeAuthorizatorPolicy treat the failure as though no cust…
- CVE-2026-73421CRITICALCVSS 9.1EG 9.12026-07-23
NextAuth.js provides authentication for Next.js. From next-auth 5.0.0-beta.0 until 5.0.0-beta.32, applications that gate access by checking only for the existence of the auth object returned by the auth() wrapper can fail open when Auth.js…
- CVE-2026-40525CRITICALCVSS 9.1EG 9.12026-04-17
OpenViking prior to version 0.3.9 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the VikingBot OpenAPI HTTP route surface where the authentication check fails open when the api_key configuration value is unset or empty. Remote attacke…
- CVE-2026-77866CRITICALCVSS 9.0EG 9.02026-09-15
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Slab safeurl allows an attacker who controls a validated URL to reach internal network destinations the library is configured to block. Only IPv4 addresses are matched against the reserv…
- CVE-2026-68746HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82026-08-05
Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open') vulnerability in livebook-dev livebook allows an unauthenticated network client to obtain full access to a Livebook server that enforces identity through Livebook Teams. A Livebook Agent or App Server…
- CVE-2024-43532HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82024-10-08
Remote Registry Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-1578HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82021-08-25
A vulnerability in an API endpoint of Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) and Cisco Cloud Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (Cloud APIC) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to elevate privileges t…
- CVE-2025-54870HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72025-08-05
VTun-ng is a Virtual Tunnel over TCP/IP network. In versions 3.0.17 and below, failure to initialize encryption modules might cause reversion to plaintext due to insufficient error handling. The bug was first introduced in VTun-ng version …
- CVE-2026-44094HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62026-07-30
An unauthenticated remote attacker can enforce the system to fall back to a firmware partition with an insecure configuration including default credentials. This could allow the attacker to gain SSH access to the system as an unprivileged …
- CVE-2026-54762HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.62026-06-19
Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. From 3.7.0-ea.1 until 3.7.5, there is a medium severity vulnerability in Traefik's Kubernetes Ingress NGINX provider that causes affected routes to fail open. When an Ingress explicitly e…
- CVE-2023-4030HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 8.42023-08-17
A vulnerability was reported in BIOS for ThinkPad P14s Gen 2, P15s Gen 2, T14 Gen 2, and T15 Gen 2 that could cause the system to recover to insecure settings if the BIOS becomes corrupt.
- CVE-2026-81379HIGHCVSS 8.2EG 8.22026-09-08
Not failing securely ('failing open') in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature over a network.
- CVE-2026-18329HIGHCVSS 8.2EG 8.22026-09-02
Description NGINX JavaScript (njs) and QuickJS (qjs) engines have a vulnerability when a js_access handler performs asynchronous request body processing and an exception is thrown during asynchronous access-control evaluation before an …
- CVE-2026-69306HIGHCVSS 8.2EG 8.22026-08-11
Not failing securely ('failing open') in Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature over a network.
- CVE-2026-50528HIGHCVSS 8.2EG 8.22026-07-14
Incorrect authorization in .NET allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature over a network.
- CVE-2026-53712HIGHCVSS 8.2EG 8.22026-07-01
SCRAM (Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism) is part of the family of Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL, RFC 4422) authentication mechanisms. Prior to 3.3, a flaw in com.ongres.scram:scram-client and com.ongres.s…
- CVE-2026-77560HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12026-09-21
Tinyauth is an authentication and authorization server. Prior to 5.1.2, Tinyauth compares forwarded hostnames case-sensitively while reverse proxies route equivalent hostnames case-insensitively, allowing an authenticated low-privilege use…
- CVE-2026-85649HIGHCVSS 7.9EG 7.92026-09-04
(Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho's Actualizer v1.2.0 and earlier contains a fail-open password validation vulnerability in the Alpha user and root user password loops of Shell/debian-minbase-install.sh. The installer invokes mkpasswd to generate y…
- CVE-2026-35205HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82026-04-09
Helm is a package manager for Charts for Kubernetes. From 4.0.0 to 4.1.3, Helm will install plugins missing provenance (.prov file) when signature verification is required. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.1.4.
- CVE-2026-61595HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72026-09-16
djust provides Phoenix LiveView-style reactive server-side rendering for Django with Rust-powered performance. Prior to version 1.0.7, `djust.tenants` isolation was enforced only on the HTTP path. The current tenant was stored in `threadin…
- CVE-2026-95676HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52026-09-23
A missing/improper authentication vulnerability in the WatchGuard AuthPoint Gateway's LDAP Sync first-factor authentication allows a remote attacker to bypass single-factor password verification under non-default operating conditions. Addi…
- CVE-2026-42423HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52026-04-28
OpenClaw before 2026.4.8 contains an approval-timeout fallback mechanism that bypasses strictInlineEval explicit-approval requirements on gateway and node exec hosts. Attackers can exploit this timeout fallback to execute inline eval comma…
- CVE-2026-40248HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52026-04-16
free5GC is an open-source implementation of the 5G core network. In versions 4.2.1 and below of the UDR service, the handler for creating or updating Traffic Influence Subscriptions checks whether the influenceId path segment equals subs-t…
- CVE-2026-40247HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52026-04-16
free5GC is an open-source implementation of the 5G core network. In versions 4.2.1 and below of the UDR service, the handler for reading Traffic Influence Subscriptions checks whether the influenceId path segment equals subs-to-notify, but…
- CVE-2026-35042HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52026-04-06
fast-jwt provides fast JSON Web Token (JWT) implementation. In 6.1.0 and earlier, fast-jwt does not validate the crit (Critical) Header Parameter defined in RFC 7515 §4.1.11. When a JWS token contains a crit array listing extensions that …
- CVE-2024-8185HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52024-10-31
Vault Community and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) clusters using Vault’s Integrated Storage backend are vulnerable to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack through memory exhaustion through a Raft cluster join API endpoint . An attacker may …
- CVE-2023-28840HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.52023-04-04
Moby is an open source container framework developed by Docker Inc. that is distributed as Docker, Mirantis Container Runtime, and various other downstream projects/products. The Moby daemon component (`dockerd`), which is developed as mob…
- CVE-2026-107584HIGHCVSS 7.4EG 7.42026-10-08
Progressive Robot hMailServer 6.0.0 through 6.3.5 fails open when applying DANE (RFC 7672) to outbound SMTP delivery. The server's validating DNSSEC resolver treated a TLSA or MX lookup that did not complete (no answer, SERVFAIL, a malform…
- CVE-2026-61788HIGHCVSS 7.4EG 7.42026-09-24
DBHub is a database MCP server for Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MariaDB, SQLite. Prior to version 0.22.6, setting `readonly = true` on the `execute_sql` tool does not make the connection read-only. The connectors are written to set…
- CVE-2026-70452HIGHCVSS 7.4EG 7.42026-08-13
rsync 3.1.0 before 3.5.0 contains an access control bypass vulnerability that allows remote attackers to circumvent hosts deny rules by inducing DNS resolution failures during hostname-based access control evaluation. When a DNS lookup for…
- CVE-2026-42246HIGHCVSS 7.4EG 7.42026-05-09
Net::IMAP implements Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) client functionality in Ruby. Prior to versions 0.3.10, 0.4.24, 0.5.14, and 0.6.4, a man-in-the-middle attacker can cause Net::IMAP#starttls to return "successfully", without sta…
- CVE-2026-78022MEDIUMCVSS 6.8EG 6.82026-10-09
Dell Secure Connect Gateway (SCG) Policy Manager, versions prior to 5.34.00.16, contains a Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open') vulnerability. A low privileged attacker with remote access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, lead…
- CVE-2023-28842MEDIUMCVSS 6.8EG 6.82023-04-04
Moby) is an open source container framework developed by Docker Inc. that is distributed as Docker, Mirantis Container Runtime, and various other downstream projects/products. The Moby daemon component (`dockerd`), which is developed as mo…
- CVE-2023-28841MEDIUMCVSS 6.8EG 6.82023-04-04
Moby is an open source container framework developed by Docker Inc. that is distributed as Docker, Mirantis Container Runtime, and various other downstream projects/products. The Moby daemon component (`dockerd`), which is developed as mob…
- CVE-2026-41334MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52026-04-23
OpenClaw before 2026.3.31 contains a decompression bomb vulnerability in image processing that fails to properly enforce pixel-limit guards on sips. Attackers can exploit this by uploading oversized images to cause denial of service throug…
- CVE-2024-2660MEDIUMCVSS 6.4EG 6.42024-04-04
Vault and Vault Enterprise TLS certificates auth method did not correctly validate OCSP responses when one or more OCSP sources were configured. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-2660, affects Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.14.0 and above, and is…
- CVE-2021-3614MEDIUMCVSS 6.4EG 6.42021-07-16
A vulnerability was reported on some Lenovo Notebook systems that could allow an attacker with physical access to elevate privileges under certain conditions during a BIOS update performed by Lenovo Vantage.
- CVE-2026-62235MEDIUMCVSS 6.3EG 6.32026-07-17
Grav Flex-Objects before version 1.4.3 contains a broken access control vulnerability in the admin-next REST API that allows authenticated users with only api.access permission to perform unauthorized CRUD operations on permission-less dir…
- CVE-2026-82018MEDIUMCVSS 6.1EG 6.12026-08-28
IGEL OS 12 before 12.9.0, 12.8.3 LTS and IGEL OS 11 before 11.11.150 contain a secure boot bypass vulnerability in the GRUB boot stage that allows physically present attackers to gain unauthorized root access by placing an unsigned empty f…
- CVE-2026-101998MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92026-10-08
Docker Sandboxes could fail open while masking credentials in protected proxy responses. When a response-body read returned data together with an error, affected handlers could forward unmasked bytes. Code inside an authorized sandbox coul…
- CVE-2026-107314MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92026-10-07
pgjdbc, the PostgreSQL JDBC Driver, versions 42.7.11 through 42.7.13 enforce no restriction when the requireAuth connection property excludes all six authentication methods the driver knows, for example requireAuth=!password,!md5,!gss,!ssp…
- CVE-2026-92591MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92026-09-16
Craft CMS 5.0.0 through 5.10.12 treats a database connection failure as meaning that Craft is not installed, which makes anonymous installer actions — including install/validate-site — reachable on an installed production site whenever…
- CVE-2026-54291MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92026-07-06
pgjdbc is an open source postgresql JDBC Driver. In releases 42.7.4 through 42.7.11, channelBinding=require connections can be silently downgraded from SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS with channel binding to plain SCRAM-SHA-256 without it, losing the m…
- CVE-2026-55568MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92026-06-19
Guzzle is an extensible PHP HTTP client. Prior to 7.12.1, in certain configurations, traffic expected to be protected by TLS on the hop to the proxy is transmitted in cleartext. Proxy authentication credentials (the Proxy-Authorization hea…
- CVE-2026-100860MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-09-27
heym before 0.0.105 does not act on the result of the credential authorization lookup in the Redis workflow node (backend/app/services/node_execution/nodes/redis_node.py). When _get_accessible_credential returns None — because the creden…
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