Eclipse Kura up to 5.6.2 Identity REST APIs privileges management

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A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, has been found in Eclipse Kura up to 5.6.2. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Identity REST APIs. This manipulation causes privileges management. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-112191. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as very critical was found in Eclipse Kura up to 5.6.2. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Identity REST APIs. 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, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

In Eclipse Kura versions 5.4.0 through 5.6.2, the Identity REST APIs (identity/v1, and identity/v2 since 5.5.0, provided by org.eclipse.kura.rest.identity.provider) do not check identity and permission management requests against the permissions of the requesting identity. An authenticated identity holding the rest.identity permission, but not kura.admin, can assign any permission to any identity, including kura.admin to itself. It can also change the password of, or delete, identities holding more privileges than its own, including administrators, and create or delete permissions. This allows escalation to full administrative privileges and can lock legitimate administrators out of the device. The issue is fixed in Eclipse Kura 5.6.3.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-112191 since 10/19/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/10/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 5.6.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Eclipse

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• Kura

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• 5.6.0
• 5.6.1
• 5.6.2

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• open-source

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