Ping Identity PingFederate up to 13.0.1 Expression Evaluation privileges management

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A vulnerability was found in Ping Identity PingFederate up to 13.0.1. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Expression Evaluation. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-20773. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Ping Identity PingFederate up to 13.0.1. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Expression Evaluation. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A role-based access control issue was identified in the administrative expression evaluation functionality. This could allow users with certain administrative roles to access expression testing capabilities beyond their intended permissions.

The advisory is available at support.pingidentity.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-20773 since 01/07/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/14/2026). This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Vendor

• Ping Identity

Name

• PingFederate

Version

• 11.3.0
• 11.3.1
• 11.3.2
• 11.3.3
• 11.3.4
• 11.3.5
• 11.3.6
• 11.3.7
• 11.3.8
• 11.3.9
• 11.3.10
• 11.3.11
• 11.3.12
• 11.3.13
• 11.3.14
• 12.0.0
• 12.0.1
• 12.0.2
• 12.0.3
• 12.0.4
• 12.0.5
• 12.0.6
• 12.0.7
• 12.0.8
• 12.0.9
• 12.0.10
• 12.1.0
• 12.1.1
• 12.1.2
• 12.1.3
• 12.1.4
• 12.1.5
• 12.1.6
• 12.1.7
• 12.1.8
• 12.1.9
• 12.1.10
• 12.2.0
• 12.2.1
• 12.2.2
• 12.2.3
• 12.2.4
• 12.2.5
• 12.2.6
• 12.2.7
• 12.3.0
• 12.3.1
• 12.3.2
• 12.3.3
• 12.3.4
• 12.3.5
• 13.0.0
• 13.0.1

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