CVE-2026-40349

HIGH8.8

Authenticated Movary User Can Self-Escalate to Administrator via PUT /settings/users/{userId} by Setting isAdmin=true

Published Apr 18, 2026

Modified 3 days ago

Details

Movary is a self hosted web app to track and rate a user's watched movies. Prior to version 0.71.1, an ordinary authenticated user can escalate their own account to administrator by sending isAdmin=true to PUT /settings/users/{userId} for their own user ID. The endpoint is intended to let a user edit their own profile, but it updates the sensitive isAdmin field without any admin-only authorization check. Version 0.71.1 patches the issue.

References

WEB

https://github.com/leepeuker/movary/commit/12c8a090051b1a1c07a3aa48922f3bc9ffe44c8b

WEB

https://github.com/leepeuker/movary/pull/750

WEB

https://github.com/leepeuker/movary/releases/tag/0.71.1

WEB

https://github.com/leepeuker/movary/security/advisories/GHSA-mcfq-8rx7-w25v

ADVISORY

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40349

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