Apache OFBiz up to 24.09.7 ProductSearchEvents improper authorization

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Apache OFBiz up to 24.09.7. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component ProductSearchEvents. The manipulation leads to improper authorization. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-81808. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Apache OFBiz up to 24.09.7 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component ProductSearchEvents. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-285. The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Missing Authorization in ProductSearchEvents in Apache OFBiz 24.09 before 24.09.08 on all platforms allows a remote authenticated attacker holding only catalog view permission to bulk-modify product category and feature associations across arbitrary search results by seeding a broad product search and then invoking search-result mutation events such as searchRemoveFromCategory, searchExpireFromCategory, searchAddToCategory, searchAddFeature, and searchRemoveFeature, causing the servlet to authorize the request against only the base view-level permission declared on the request-map while the underlying event methods perform bulk entity-engine deletes/inserts without checking the DELETE/CREATE permission enforced by the equivalent service-layer operations (e.g. removeProductFromCategory). Users are recommended to upgrade to version 24.09.08, which fixes this issue.

The advisory is shared at lists.apache.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-81808 since 08/27/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/05/2026). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1548.002 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 24.09.08 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Apache

Name

• OFBiz

Version

• 24.09.0
• 24.09.1
• 24.09.2
• 24.09.3
• 24.09.4
• 24.09.5
• 24.09.6
• 24.09.7

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.apache.org/

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