CVE-2026-50000
Published:October 30, 2026
Updated:November 04, 2026
SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can use to securely accept documents from, and communicate with anonymous sources. From 2.5.0 until 2.16.0, the "Journalist Interface" can accept an "API session" token against the "web UI" because its "SessionInterface" keeps a mutable session key prefix that changes with each request and persists across requests. API and web sessions were separated in "Redis" starting in version 2.5.0, but prefix corruption confuses those session namespaces. An attacker who already has access to the secret "Journalist Interface" onion address, the required authentication access and a recent nonexpired "API session" token can reuse that token against the "web UI" until its natural expiry, at most eight hours. The corrupted prefix can also prevent logout from deleting the correct "Redis" session, although normal expiry still applies. A compromised journalist can access encrypted submissions and perform broad actions on source submissions, but this issue does not expose plaintext submissions or affect the running system's availability. This issue is fixed in version 2.16.0.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=2.5.0-rc1 <2.16.0Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2.16.0Related Resources (5)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
5.9
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
LOW
Vulnerable System Integrity
HIGH
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
Weakness Type (CWE)
Incorrect Authorization
EPSS
Base Score:
0.36