Assessment deletion via missing authorization
Published Sep 9, 2026 · Updated Sep 9, 2026
Missing authorization in Tanium Comply allows remote authenticated users with report-write access to delete database assessments. Tanium has not published the affected request handler or the specific authorization check omitted before an assessment-deletion operation. Exploitation requires Comply Report Write permission; the documented consequence is deletion of assessment records, with no confidentiality impact.
Summary
What happened
Missing authorization in Tanium Comply allows remote authenticated users with report-write access to delete database assessments. Tanium has not published the affected request handler or the specific authorization check omitted before an assessment-deletion operation. Exploitation requires Comply Report Write permission; the documented consequence is deletion of assessment records, with no confidentiality impact.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-87036
- Published
- Sep 9, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 9, 2026
- Vendor
- Tanium
- Product
- Tanium Comply
- Classifications
- CWE-862, T1485
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 9, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 9, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=2.32 <2.32.252
- Affected versionversion=2.35 <2.35.306
- Affected versionversion=2.37 <2.37.308
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