{"id":"CVE-2019-16919","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-16919","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:27:46.782Z","title":"Harbor API has a Broken Access Control vulnerability.","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.","published":"2019-10-18T12:15:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:22:58.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-276"],"affected":["linuxfoundation/harbor","vmware/cloud foundation","vmware/harbor container registry"],"epss":{"score":0.01711,"percentile":0.77204,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"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."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0016.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/goharbor/harbor/security/advisories/GHSA-x2r2-w9c7-h624","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://landscape.cncf.io/selected=harbor","tags":["Product","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0016.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/goharbor/harbor/security/advisories/GHSA-x2r2-w9c7-h624","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://landscape.cncf.io/selected=harbor","tags":["Product","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16919","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}