Medium [CVE-2026-40968] When an authenticated user is denied access to a gRPC method, their authenticated identity remains bound to the gRPC worker…
This medium-severity VMware (Broadcom) advisory covers CVE-2026-40968.
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Summary
When an authenticated user is denied access to a gRPC method, their authenticated identity remains bound to the gRPC worker thread and can be inherited by a subsequent unauthenticated request on the same thread. This may allow the subsequent user to gain escalated permissions.
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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- 1.0.0
- 1.0.2
- 1.0.3
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Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: 1.0.0, 1.0.2, 1.0.3. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.
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