CVE-2026-86867 (GCVE-0-2026-86867)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-23 17:44
Modified
2026-09-24 14:37
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EPSS score ?
CWE
Summary
Cinnamon's Kotaemon (all versions up to and including v0.12.0) multi-user chat interface contains multiple vulnerabilities due to incorrect authorization and improper access controls. There are four handler methods in `libs/ktem/ktem/pages/chat/control.py` that load a Conversation record by its ID without comparing the requester's `user_id` to the conversation's owner `Conversation.user`. This allows any authenticated user to perform the following actions:
1. Read other user's chat transcripts, RAG retrieval history, AI-generated plots, and chat suggestions.
2. Permanently delete another user's conversation.
3. Rename another user's conversation.
4. Overwrite another user's conversation's chat suggestion list.
References
| URL | Tags | |
|---|---|---|
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cinnamon AI | Kotaemon |
Version: 0.12.0 |
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