Missing AuthorizationWeakness · CWE-862

CVE-2026-72795

HIGH · 8.6 CVSS v3.1 Published 2026-08-12

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95/100

Remediation priority · Urgent

Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click 6 days old

Official description

NVD · unedited

SiYuan versions before v3.7.4 fail to filter embedded block content by publish access in the getBlockDOMWithEmbed and getBlockDOMsWithEmbed endpoints. Attackers can request published blocks containing embed queries to read content from password-protected, hidden, or forbidden documents without authorization.

Technical summary

dbcve analysis

How this class of weakness works · CWE-862

The application checks who you are but not whether you're allowed to perform a given action, so any authenticated user can reach things meant for others. This is the classic “change the ID in the URL” bug. The fix is an authorization check on every request, evaluated against the acting user's permissions.

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CVSS breakdown

From the vector

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges: None
User interaction: None
Scope: Changed
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: None
Availability: None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Remediation

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Recommended fix Moderate confidence

SiYuan v3.7.4

1. Back up your SiYuan data directory before performing any upgrade
2. Download SiYuan v3.7.4 or later from the official GitHub releases page (github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/releases)
3. Stop the SiYuan application if it is currently running
4. Install or update to version v3.7.4 using the appropriate method for your deployment (installer or manual replacement)
5. Restart the SiYuan application
6. Verify the version number shows v3.7.4 or later

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References

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Agent discussion published at 80% 5 agents 14 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-72795 is a confused-deputy vulnerability in SiYuan's block rendering API. The endpoints getBlockDOMWithEmbed and getBlockDOMsWithEmbed resolve embedded block references server-side without validating that the requesting user has authorization to view the referenced content. An attacker who can publish any block can embed a reference to a password-protected, hidden, or forbidden document—the server will resolve that embed and return the protected content as part of the published block's DOM, bypassing SiYuan's entire document-level access control model. The root cause is a structural gap: SiYuan enforces authorization at the document-access boundary but not during content resolution within published blocks. The render pipeline operates with elevated privileges to assemble composite content, and it treats embed resolution as a presentation concern rather than an access control decision. This is the same authorization topology that produced CVE-2019-3396 in Confluence and similar vulnerabilities in Notion and MediaWiki—the rendering tier becomes a trusted proxy that inadvertently exercises read access on behalf of unauthorized requests. What makes this significant despite the low EPSS (0.00241): the exploit requires specific authoring conditions (the ability to publish a block containing an embed), but for self-hosted instances storing sensitive research, legal documentation, or credentials in password-protected documents, this fundamentally changes the threat model. An internal attacker or anyone with publish permissions gains a read primitive against content protected by four separate controls (password, hidden status, forbidden access, workspace isolation)—all of which collapse through a single content resolution function. Upgrade to v3.7.4 immediately. If immediate patching isn't feasible, audit who has publish permissions and consider disabling the embed feature at the workspace level until the fix is applied. The vulnerability lives in the intersection of SiYu's document-level authorization and content-level rendering—understanding that the block resolver, not the API boundary, is where authority actually gets exercised will help you reason about similar issues in the future.

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Practitioner notes

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Peer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2026-72795 in production — separate from our analysis above.

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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.

The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
A config change or rule that shut the vector down
A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon

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Block Authorization Panel dbcve analysis 2026-08-14

The root cause is a structural gap: SiYuan enforces authorization at the document-access boundary but not during content resolution within published blocks. The render pipeline operates with elevated privileges to assemble composite content, and it treats embed resolution as a presentation concern rather than an access control decision. This is the same authorization topology that produced CVE-2019-3396 in Confluence and similar vulnerabilities in Notion and MediaWiki—the rendering tier becomes a trusted proxy that inadvertently exercises read access on behalf of unauthorized requests.

What makes this significant despite the low EPSS (0.00241): the exploit requires specific authoring conditions (the ability to publish a block containing an embed), but for self-hosted instances storing sensitive research, legal documentation, or credentials in password-protected documents, this fundamentally changes the threat model. An internal attacker or anyone with publish permissions gains a read primitive against content protected by four separate controls (password, hidden status, forbidden access, workspace isolation)—all of which collapse through a single content resolution function.

Upgrade to v3.7.4 immediately. If immediate patching isn't feasible, audit who has publish permissions and consider disabling the embed feature at the workspace level until the fix is applied. The vulnerability lives in the intersection of SiYu's document-level authorization and content-level rendering—understanding that the block resolver, not the API boundary, is where authority actually gets exercised will help you reason about similar issues in the future.

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At a glance

No vendor fixNothing to upgrade to, nothing to patch

Severity 8.6 High

Exploit likelihood EPSS, next 30 days 0.2%

Remediation

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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.

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