CVE-2026-6356
Published: 22 April 2026
Summary
CVE-2026-6356 is a critical-severity Insufficient Granularity of Access Control (CWE-1220) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 9.6 (Critical).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 9.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Validates and sanitizes user inputs including manipulated parameters to prevent privilege escalation exploits in the web application.
Enforces approved access authorizations in the web application, blocking standard users from escalating to super administrator privileges.
Limits privileges to the minimum necessary, reducing the impact of potential privilege escalation even if parameter manipulation partially succeeds.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The CVE describes a privilege escalation vulnerability allowing low-privileged users to gain super administrator access via parameter manipulation in a web application, directly enabling exploitation for privilege escalation.
NVD Description
A vulnerability in the web application allows standard users to escalate their privileges to those of a super administrator through parameter manipulation, enabling them to access and modify sensitive information.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2026-6356 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in a web application that allows standard users to elevate their privileges to super administrator levels through parameter manipulation. This flaw enables attackers to access and modify sensitive information. It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.6 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N) and is associated with CWE-1220. The vulnerability was published on 2026-04-22.
Standard users with low privileges (PR:L) can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation changes the scope (S:C) and results in high impacts to confidentiality and integrity (C:H/I:H), allowing attackers to gain super administrator access and manipulate sensitive data, while availability remains unaffected (A:N).
For mitigation details, refer to the advisories and resources in the referenced GitHub repositories at https://github.com/Penguinsecq/CVE-2026-6356/.
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