Volcengine OpenViking up to 0.1.18 root_api_key missing authentication

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Volcengine OpenViking up to 0.1.18. This affects an unknown part. Executing a manipulation of the argument root_api_key can lead to missing authentication. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-22207. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. Applying a patch is advised to resolve this issue.

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A vulnerability was found in Volcengine OpenViking up to 0.1.18. It has been declared as very critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown part. The manipulation of the argument root_api_key with an unknown input leads to a missing authentication vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-306. The product does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

OpenViking through version 0.1.18, prior to commit 0251c70, contains a broken access control vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to gain ROOT privileges when the root_api_key configuration is omitted. Attackers can send requests to protected endpoints without authentication headers to access administrative functions including account management, resource operations, and system configuration.

The weakness was shared by Chia Min Jun Lennon. The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-22207 since 01/06/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 03/01/2026).

Applying the patch 0251c70 is able to eliminate this problem.

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Vendor

• Volcengine

Name

• OpenViking

Version

• 0.1.0
• 0.1.1
• 0.1.2
• 0.1.3
• 0.1.4
• 0.1.5
• 0.1.6
• 0.1.7
• 0.1.8
• 0.1.9
• 0.1.10
• 0.1.11
• 0.1.12
• 0.1.13
• 0.1.14
• 0.1.15
• 0.1.16
• 0.1.17
• 0.1.18

Website

• Product: https://github.com/volcengine/OpenViking/

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