Duty Analyst: Salva Rocha

CVE-2026-31923

Published: 2026-04-14 09:16:36 | Last modified: 2026-04-17 18:39:45

HIGH CVSS 7.5
No EPSS data

Description

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information vulnerability in Apache APISIX.

This can occur due to `ssl_verify` in openid-connect plugin configuration being set to false by default.
This issue affects Apache APISIX: from 0.7 through 3.15.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.16.0, which fixes the issue.

CVSS details

Severity
high
Score
7.5
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS

This CVE is not currently listed in the EPSS dataset.

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