CVE-2019-16919
Harbor API has a Broken Access Control vulnerability.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.71%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Harbor API has a Broken Access Control vulnerability. The vulnerability allows project administrators to use the Harbor API to create a robot account with unauthorized push and/or pull access permissions to a project they don't have access or control for. The Harbor API did not enforce the proper project permissions and project scope on the API request to create a new robot account.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.71% probability · 77th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-276
- Affected
- linuxfoundation/harbor · vmware/cloud foundation · vmware/harbor container registry
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.7% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0016.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://github.com/goharbor/harbor/security/advisories/GHSA-x2r2-w9c7-h624Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://landscape.cncf.io/selected=harborProduct, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0016.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://github.com/goharbor/harbor/security/advisories/GHSA-x2r2-w9c7-h624Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://landscape.cncf.io/selected=harborProduct, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.