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CVE-2026-92591: Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open') in craftcms cms

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VulnerabilityCVE-2026-92591cvecve-2026-92591
Published: 09/16/2026 (09/16/2026, 21:46:57 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: craftcms
Product: cms

Description

Craft CMS 5.0.0 through 5.10.12 treats a database connection failure as meaning that Craft is not installed, which makes anonymous installer actions — including install/validate-site — reachable on an installed production site whenever PHP remains available but the configured MySQL endpoint does not. The action accepts a site name, serializes it through Site::getName(), and expands ${NAME} expressions using App::env(). An unauthenticated attacker who obtained a guest session cookie and matching CSRF token before the outage and whose session remains valid during it can submit a predictable variable name (for example Craft's conventional CRAFT_SECURITY_KEY) and receive its value, disclosing Craft secrets, process environment variables, $_SERVER entries, or PHP constants such as the security key, database credentials, or API keys. The issue requires an independently occurring database outage; the vulnerability itself provides no way to induce it. Fixed in 5.10.13.

CVSS v4.0

Score 8.2high

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
Present
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Vuln. Confidentiality
High
Vuln. Integrity
None
Vuln. Availability
None
Subsq. Confidentiality
None
Subsq. Integrity
None
Subsq. Availability
None
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected software

craftcms

cms

Affected versions
>=5.0.0 <5.10.13

Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
VulnCheck
Date Reserved
2026-09-16T13:47:49.170Z
Cvss Version
4.0
State
PUBLISHED

Threat ID: 6aab120655bf5e2cf5368831

Added to database: 09/16/2026, 22:02:46 UTC

Last updated: 09/16/2026, 22:02:46 UTC

Views: 1

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