CVE-2026-33005
Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges vulnerability in Apache OpenMeetings.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.42%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges vulnerability in Apache OpenMeetings. Any registered user can query web service with their credentials and get files/sub-folders of any folder by ID (metadata only NOT contents). Metadata includes id, type, name and some other field. Full list of fields get be checked at FileItemDTO object. This issue affects Apache OpenMeetings: from 3.10 before 9.0.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 9.0.0, which fixes the issue.
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.42% probability · 35th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-274
- Affected
- apache/openmeetings
- Source
- security@apache.org
References
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/pttoprd628g3xr6lpp3bm1z8m3z8t4p7Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://openmeetings.apache.org/openmeetings-db/apidocs/org.apache.openmeetings.db/org/apache/openmeetings/db/dto/file/FileItemDTO.htmlProduct
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/09/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.