Privilege escalation via unrevoked invitation tokens
Published Nov 29, 2025 · Updated Dec 1, 2025
Broken access control in OpenObserve before 0.16.0 allows remote authenticated users to regain organization access via stale invite tokens. The invitation workflow neither expires tokens after use nor revokes earlier tokens after reinvitation, role changes, removal, or departure. A previously invited user who retains an older link can rejoin after removal or accept a still-valid higher-role invitation to become an administrator.
Summary
What happened
Broken access control in OpenObserve before 0.16.0 allows remote authenticated users to regain organization access via stale invite tokens. The invitation workflow neither expires tokens after use nor revokes earlier tokens after reinvitation, role changes, removal, or departure. A previously invited user who retains an older link can rejoin after removal or accept a still-valid higher-role invitation to become an administrator.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-66223
- Published
- Nov 29, 2025
- Updated
- Dec 1, 2025
- Vendor
- OpenObserve
- Product
- OpenObserve
- Classifications
- CWE-613, CWE-284, T1098
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Nov 29, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Dec 1, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=< 0.16.0
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Attacks
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- Vendor invitation-token reuse proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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