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CWE-290: Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

Base

This attack-focused weakness is caused by incorrectly implemented authentication schemes that are subject to spoofing attacks.

Consequences

  • Access Control: Bypass Protection Mechanism, Gain Privileges or Assume Identity

Recent advisories

  • CVE-2026-102764 — The vulnerability exists within internal components of BeyondTrust’s Remote Support product.
  • CVE-2026-104935 — Authentication bypass by spoofing in ICS before version 25.1.3.0 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands.
  • GHSA-xv7q-fvmc-jx96 — Vikunja: OIDC email-fallback account linking ignores email_verified, enabling local-account takeover
  • GHSA-9q47-3cm2-2rp8 — pyLoad: Rate-Limit Bypass and Audit-Log Spoofing via Trusted Client-Controlled `X-Forwarded-For` Header
  • GHSA-66wr-7vmr-p5jq — Payload authentication token field handling issue
  • GHSA-4f6c-2vvp-gw82 — Langflow: IP Spoofing Bypass via `X-Forwarded-For` Allowing Remote Configuration Write
  • EEF-CVE-2026-76949 — Remember-me sign-in guard reads a session key that is never written in ash_authentication, allowing session replacement
  • EEF-CVE-2026-91039 — dynamic_oidc identities are not namespaced by connection in ash_authentication, allowing cross-connection account takeover
  • GHSA-jqcg-44mw-7w3h — proxy-addr vulnerable to IP spoofing via IPv4-mapped IPv6 trust subnet
  • GHSA-rf44-j88r-hh8c — Traefik: ForwardAuth identity spoofing via dot-form header alias
  • GHSA-3mp7-4rh5-jrv9 — SiYuan: Localhost-trust admin bypass on auth-code-gated endpoints, with potential remote reachability via the fixed-port proxy
  • GHSA-93qh-5269-9wcf — Statamic: Account takeover via OAuth email matching without email-verification check
  • GHSA-qj9c-59p6-8cgx — PraisonAI: AgentMail webhook lacks signature verification, allowing unauthenticated message injection and sender spoofing
  • GHSA-x5c9-v98j-722r — 9router /v1 APIs has unauthenticated access via reverse proxy locality collapse
  • GHSA-86m2-fcxq-5q7c — 9router: Unauthenticated `/v1` proxy access via `Host`-header spoofing → open AI relay + SSRF

All advisories for CWE-290

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