CVE-2026-21862 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting RustFS, a distributed object storage system, prior to version alpha.78. This flaw allows an attacker to bypass IP-based access control by spoofing the source IP address through unverified X-Forwarded-For/X-Real-Ip headers, enabling unauthorized access to resources. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this network-exploitable vulnerability has low attack complexity and can lead to high integrity impacts. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rustfs:rustfs:1.0.0:alpha1:*:*:*:rust:*:* | ||
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rustfs:rustfs:1.0.0:alpha10:*:*:*:rust:*:* | ||
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rustfs:rustfs:1.0.0:alpha11:*:*:*:rust:*:* | ||
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rustfs:rustfs:1.0.0:alpha12:*:*:*:rust:*:* | ||
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rustfs:rustfs:1.0.0:alpha13:*:*:*:rust:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
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