Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key Affecting chainlit package, versions [1.0.500,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-CHAINLIT-19477050
  • published1 Sept 2026
  • disclosed31 Aug 2026
  • creditGeorge Chen

Introduced: 31 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-82290  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-639  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for chainlit.

Overview

chainlit is a Build Conversational AI.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in the feedback PUT and DELETE endpoints in backend/chainlit/server.py. An authenticated attacker can modify or delete other users’ feedback by supplying arbitrary feedback identifiers. This corrupts human-rating data used for model evaluation and can undermine the integrity of stored feedback records for anyone relying on Chainlit’s review workflow.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1