Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key Affecting weblate package, versions [,5.17)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-WEBLATE-16110831
  • published20 Apr 2026
  • disclosed16 Apr 2026
  • creditMichal Čihař

Introduced: 16 Apr 2026

CVE-2026-33212  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-639  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade weblate to version 5.17 or higher.

Overview

weblate is an A web-based continuous localization system with tight version control integration

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in the API for pending tasks due to missing verification of user access. An attacker can access logs of in-progress operations by guessing the random UUID of a task.

Note: This is only exploitable if the attacker is able to correctly guess the UUID and bypass API rate limits.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1