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CVE-2026-53911 cerebrate CVE debrief
CVE-2026-53911 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cerebrate, a software application, that allows an authenticated attacker to modify records due to a mass-assignment issue. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.3 and was published on 2026-06-11T10:16:21.757Z. The issue was fixed in Cerebrate version 1.37.
- Vendor
- cerebrate
- Product
- Unknown
- CVSS
- MEDIUM 6.3
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in stored evidence
- Original CVE published
- 2026-06-11
- Original CVE updated
- 2026-06-11
- Advisory published
- 2026-06-11
- Advisory updated
- 2026-06-11
Who should care
Users of Cerebrate software, particularly those with authenticated access, should be aware of this vulnerability and take steps to upgrade to version 1.37 or apply necessary patches.
Technical summary
The vulnerability, discovered by Jeroen Pinoy with additional support from AI-Assisted Optus 4.8, involves the id primary key field being supplied through request input during CRUD edit operations and certain custom entity patching flows. In affected entities that did not explicitly mark id as inaccessible, an authenticated attacker could submit a crafted edit request containing the id of another record, causing the save operation to update that unrelated record instead of the record identified by the route parameter.
Defensive priority
MEDIUM
Recommended defensive actions
- Upgrade to Cerebrate version 1.37 or later.
- Review and update entity types inheriting permissive mass-assignment defaults, including User, Role, UserSetting, LocalTool, PermissionLimitation, and EnumerationCollection.
- Ensure that the id field is marked as inaccessible in the base AppModel entity.
Evidence notes
The discovery of this vulnerability was inherited from an initial finding by Jeroen Pinoy, with additional support from AI-Assisted Optus 4.8, and coordinated by Andras Iklody.
Sources and references
Verified primary and authoritative sources
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CVE-2026-53911 CVE Program record
Publisher, destination, and source semantics verified
URL: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53911
CVE Program - Official CVE Program record with source-provided CVE metadata.
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CVE-2026-53911 NVD vulnerability detail
Publisher, destination, and source semantics verified
URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53911
NIST National Vulnerability Database - Official NIST NVD detail page and source-specific vulnerability assessment.
Supplemental references
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Source reference
Unverified legacy reference
URL: https://github.com/cerebrate-project/cerebrate/commit/b3c8f951b0634f05691339512ef06cc261afecaf
5a6e4751-2f3f-4070-9419-94fb35b644e8
Methodology and review provenance
AI-assisted synthesis based on stored public vulnerability evidence. System validation, approval state, and publication status do not by themselves establish human review of this revision. PatchSiren helps prioritize defensive review and does not prove exposure or remediation on any system.