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Missing AuthenticationWeakness · CWE-306

CVE-2026-13164

HIGH · 8.8 CVSS v4.0 Published 2026-06-24
Patch available
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97/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click Patch available 8 weeks old

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
Missing Authentication for Critical Function (CWE-306) in the RegisterView (apps/accounts/views.py), exposed at POST /api/auth/register/, in MailerUp <1.0.1 allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to self-register a working account on instances where registration is intended to be restricted, because the endpoint applies the AllowAny permission with no email verification, CAPTCHA, or administrator approval. Any account created this way can read all email stored by the instance, resulting in full disclosure of stored messages to an arbitrary unauthenticated attacker

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis
How this class of weakness works · CWE-306

A sensitive function is reachable with no authentication at all, so anyone who finds the endpoint can use it. These are routinely discovered by automated scanning. The fix is to require and enforce authentication on every privileged path, with no exceptions left open.

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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
Authentication
X
User interaction
None
Scope
X

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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Recommended fix High confidence

Upgrade to MailerUp version 1.0.1 or later

  1. Clone or pull the latest MailerUp repository
  2. Run 'git fetch' to get all remote updates
  3. Checkout the fixed version by running: git checkout 1.0.1 or git pull origin 1.0.1
  4. Verify the fix was applied by reviewing the commit: 99eb6d4586134bf3f4422093fbf47d6794ef0ee5
  5. Ensure the RegisterView in apps/accounts/views.py now uses appropriate authentication permissions instead of AllowAny
  6. Restart the application service to load the updated code
  7. Test that the /api/auth/register/ endpoint now properly restricts registration (requires authentication or is disabled)
  8. If registration is needed, configure appropriate restrictions like email verification, CAPTCHA, or admin approval

Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.

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