High [CVE-2026-78360] missing authorization check in delete_user allows any authenticated user to delete arbitrary users
This high-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-78360.
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Summary
A missing authorization flaw was found in Anitya. The user deletion endpoint checks that the caller is logged in but does not check that the caller is an administrator.
Any authenticated user can delete arbitrary user accounts, including administrator accounts, which can remove administrative access to the service. This vulnerability is rated as Important because any authenticated user can delete arbitrary Anitya users, including administrators, over the network with no extra conditions.
Anitya is Fedora infrastructure (release-monitoring.org) maintained by the Fedora Infrastructure team. newcli found no Red Hat product streams shipping this component. Red Hat products are not affected.
Red Hat severity: Important — CVSS 7.1 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L). Weakness: CWE-862.
Affected versions
No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative — check it before change work.
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Fixed versions
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Mitigation checklist
- There is no complete mitigation. Risk can be reduced by blocking the URL path pattern /users/*/delete at the reverse proxy (Apache or nginx) until a patch is available. That also blocks administrators from deleting users in the web UI; those operations would need to be done in the database if required.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 1 hour ago·verify at source
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