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CVE IDCVE-2026-81505GitHub advisory IDGHSA-p5vg-v7mj-f6q4

Convoy: Cross-Tenant Source IDOR Leaks Plaintext Message Broker Credentials

CVE-2026-81505 (GitHub advisory GHSA-p5vg-v7mj-f6q4) is a high-severity vulnerability with a CVSS 4.0 base score of 7.1, classed as Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639), in github.com/frain-dev/convoy (Go). Affected versions: < 0.9.3-0.20260724092134-1cc67cd16fb1. It is fixed in 0.9.3-0.20260724092134-1cc67cd16fb1.

High7.1Fix availableGitHub reviewed

Published 18 Sept 2026Updated 18 Sept 2026

7.1HighCVSS 4.0
EPSS
0.34%higher than 27% of CVEs
Weakness (CWE)
  • CWE-639Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
KEV status
Not in KEV
Published
18 Sept 2026
Updated
18 Sept 2026
Ecosystem
  • Go
Assigned by (CNA)
GitHub_M

Summary

Source: OSV (GitHub advisory)

frain-dev/convoy (all versions up to and including v26.6.2, no patch available) lets any authenticated caller who is authorized on at least one project read ANY OTHER project's "Source" record by ID via GET /api/v1/projects/{projectID}/sources/{sourceID} -- regardless of whether that Source actually belongs to the project named in the URL. The response includes the Source's full PubSub broker configuration in plaintext (AMQP/Kafka/SQS/Google credentials), with no redaction.

Details

Handler.GetSource (api/handlers/source.go) resolves the caller's authorization against the {projectID} in the URL via retrieveProject(), then calls sources.Service.FindSourceByID(ctx, project.UID, sourceID) (internal/sources/impl.go). That function accepts a projectID parameter but never uses it:

func (s *Service) FindSourceByID(ctx context.Context, projectID, id string) (*datastore.Source, error) {
    row, err := s.repo.FetchSourceByID(ctx, common.StringToPgText(id))
    ...
}

The underlying SQL query (internal/sources/repo/queries.sql, fetchSourceByID) has no project_id predicate at all:

SELECT ... FROM convoy.sources AS s
LEFT JOIN convoy.source_verifiers sv ON s.source_verifier_id = sv.id
WHERE s.id = $1 AND s.deleted_at IS NULL

So the {projectID} in the URL only gates "is the caller authorized to view a project" -- it never re-validates that the fetched Source actually belongs to that project. LoadSourcesPaged (the list endpoint) does correctly scope by project; only the single-item GetSource lookup is affected. SourceResponse{*datastore.Source} embeds the full database record with no redaction, so if the leaked Source is an AMQP/Kafka type, its pub_sub.*.auth.password field (a live, plaintext broker credential) is returned verbatim.

Proof of Concept

  1. As a test account, create "Victim Project" and an AMQP Source in it with a known broker password (verified against a real RabbitMQ broker, not just stored -- Convoy performs a live connectivity check before persisting an AMQP source).
  2. As the same or a different authenticated caller, create a completely separate "Attacker Project".
  3. Call GET /api/v1/projects/{attacker_project_id}/sources/{victim_source_id} -- i.e. a request whose URL and authorization check only ever resolve the Attacker project.
  4. Verified in a Docker lab (convoy v26.6.2): the request returns 200 with the Victim project's full Source object, including pub_sub.amqp.auth.password matching the secret set in step 1 exactly. The response's own project_id field is the Victim project's id, never the Attacker project id used in the URL/authorization check.
  5. Negative control: an otherwise-identical request for a made-up source id under the same Attacker project returns 404, confirming this is a real, ID-specific hit and not a blanket-200 endpoint.

(Community Edition license-gates org_limit=1/user_limit=1, so this PoC used one account with two projects rather than two separate companies -- the vulnerable query performs no project-ownership check regardless of license tier, so a licensed multi-org deployment has the identical exposure between genuinely different tenants.)

Impact

Any authenticated user or project-scoped API key holder who has legitimate access to at least one project on a Convoy instance can read any other project's Source configuration by ID, including plaintext third-party message-broker credentials (AMQP/Kafka/SQS/Google PubSub). In a multi-tenant deployment this is a direct cross-customer credential leak.

Fix

Add a project_id predicate to the fetchSourceByID query (and audit other single-item repository lookups reachable via a {projectID} route for the same pattern), or re-check source.ProjectID == project.UID in the handler before returning the record.

Affected / Patched

Affected: <= v26.6.2 (latest release at time of report). No patched version available.

Technical details

Source: GitHub Advisory Database

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

High7.1Base score from GitHub Advisory Database

Attack Vector AV
Network
Attack Complexity AC
Low
Attack Requirements AT
None
Privileges Required PR
Low
User Interaction UI
None
Confidentiality (Vulnerable System) VC
High
Integrity (Vulnerable System) VI
None
Availability (Vulnerable System) VA
None
Confidentiality (Subsequent Systems) SC
None
Integrity (Subsequent Systems) SI
None
Availability (Subsequent Systems) SA
None

CISA SSVC decision points

Exploitation
poc
Proof-of-concept code is public
Automatable
no
Needs manual steps per target
Technical impact
partial
Limited control of the affected system

CISA Coordinator assessment (SSVC 2.0.3) via CVE.org.

Affected packages

Source: OSV (GitHub advisory)

  • github.com/frain-dev/convoy
    Go
    pkg:golang/github.com/frain-dev/convoy
    Affected versions
    < 0.9.3-0.20260724092134-1cc67cd16fb1
    Fixed in
    0.9.3-0.20260724092134-1cc67cd16fb1

Fix

Source: OSV (GitHub advisory)

Fix available

Upgrade to 0.9.3-0.20260724092134-1cc67cd16fb1 or later.

Patch commits

  • 1cc67cdPatch commitgithub.com/frain-dev/convoy

    fix(controlplane): scope source lookups by project and canonicalize jwt blacklist keys (#2755)

    +111 −11 across 4 files

    • auth/realm/jwt/jwt.go+25 −1
    • auth/realm/jwt/jwt_test.go+65 −0
    • internal/sources/get_source_test.go+5 −8
    • internal/sources/impl.go+16 −2
  • #2755Pull requestgithub.com/frain-dev/convoy

Release commits

The commits each fixed release tag points at. They usually bump the version rather than contain the fix itself.

  • dbf1db2Release commit26.6.8github.com/frain-dev/convoy

Vulnerability intelligence

References

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Questions about CVE-2026-81505

What is the GHSA ID for CVE-2026-81505?
GitHub tracks CVE-2026-81505 as GHSA-p5vg-v7mj-f6q4.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-81505?
CVE-2026-81505 has a CVSS 4.0 base score of 7.1 (High), vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-81505?
github.com/frain-dev/convoy (Go): < 0.9.3-0.20260724092134-1cc67cd16fb1.
How do I fix CVE-2026-81505?
Upgrade to 0.9.3-0.20260724092134-1cc67cd16fb1 or later. The fix is in commit 1cc67cd and pull request #2755.
What is the Package URL (PURL) for CVE-2026-81505?
The affected package's PURL is pkg:golang/github.com/frain-dev/convoy.
Is CVE-2026-81505 exploited in the wild?
CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog doesn't list CVE-2026-81505. That means no confirmed exploitation has been catalogued, not that it is safe to leave unpatched. CISA's SSVC assessment rates exploitation as "poc". EPSS estimates a 0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 27% of CVEs.

Data sources

Upstream records

  • OSV (GitHub advisory)LoadedRaw JSON
  • GitHub Advisory DatabaseLoadedRaw JSON
  • OSV (CVE record)LoadedRaw JSON
  • CVE.orgLoaded
  • CISA KEV catalogLoaded

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