CVE-2026-73499 (GCVE-0-2026-73499)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-12 21:20 – Updated: 2026-08-14 22:19
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
etcd: Watch API authorization bypass via open-ended range requests
Summary
etcd is a distributed key-value store for the data of a distributed system. Prior to versions 3.5.33, 3.6.14, and 3.7.1, a user granted READ permission on a single exact key can use the Watch gRPC API with clientv3.WithFromKey() to receive watch events for every key lexicographically greater than or equal to the permitted key. In server/etcdserver/api/v3rpc/watch.go, the open-ended RangeEnd sentinel is rewritten before the RBAC permission check in server/auth/range_perm_cache.go function isRangeOpPermitted, causing the request to be treated as an exact-key watch. Range/Get and DeleteRange requests are not affected, and the issue affects only clusters with authentication enabled. This issue is fixed in versions 3.5.33, 3.6.14, and 3.7.1.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-14 22:19 UTC
CWE
- CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Assigner
References
8 references
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|---|---|
| https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/security/advisori… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/commit/6643f80602… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/commit/7cf71ec9e2… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/commit/afeaa624da… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/commit/e863b001bb… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/tag/v3.5.33 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/tag/v3.6.14 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/tag/v3.7.1 | x_refsource_MISC |
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Vulnerability timeline
Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.