Strapi up to 5.57.0 Token Permission Reconciliation reconcileTokenPermissionsToUserCeiling privileges management

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A vulnerability was found in Strapi up to 5.57.0. It has been declared as problematic. Impacted is the function reconcileTokenPermissionsToUserCeiling of the component Token Permission Reconciliation. Executing a manipulation can lead to privileges management. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-108114. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Strapi up to 5.57.0. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function reconcileTokenPermissionsToUserCeiling of the component Token Permission Reconciliation. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Strapi 5.47.0 through 5.57.0 contains an improper authorization vulnerability that allows admin API tokens to retain all-field Content Manager access after the owner's role is field-restricted. Because reconcileTokenPermissionsToUserCeiling ignores token permissions with omitted or null fields, token holders can keep reading content fields an administrator removed from the role.

The advisory is shared for download at hackmd.io. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-108114 since 10/09/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for 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 10/10/2026). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

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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• Strapi

Version

• 5.0
• 5.1
• 5.2
• 5.3
• 5.4
• 5.5
• 5.6
• 5.7
• 5.8
• 5.9
• 5.10
• 5.11
• 5.12
• 5.13
• 5.14
• 5.15
• 5.16
• 5.17
• 5.18
• 5.19
• 5.20
• 5.21
• 5.22
• 5.23
• 5.24
• 5.25
• 5.26
• 5.27
• 5.28
• 5.29
• 5.30
• 5.31
• 5.32
• 5.33
• 5.34
• 5.35
• 5.36
• 5.37
• 5.38
• 5.39
• 5.40
• 5.41
• 5.42
• 5.43
• 5.44
• 5.45
• 5.46
• 5.47
• 5.48
• 5.49
• 5.50
• 5.51
• 5.52
• 5.53
• 5.54
• 5.55
• 5.56
• 5.57.0

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