CVE-2026-55502
Summary
Cloudreve 4.16.1 has an OAuth scope authorization bypass in the admin storage policy routes. An OAuth bearer token scoped to Admin.Read but not Admin.Write can call POST /api/v4/admin/policy/oauth/signin and update OneDrive storage policy credentials.
The route is inside the admin group that requires Admin.Read, but it does not add the local Admin.Write guard used by sibling policy mutation routes. Its handler persists attacker-supplied secret and app_id values into the selected OneDrive storage policy before returning an OAuth URL.
Impact
An OAuth application that was granted only read-only admin scope can modify persistent storage backend configuration for a OneDrive policy. This can break the storage backend, replace the stored application secret and app ID, and redirect future OAuth setup for that policy to attacker-controlled application parameters. The attack crosses the intended OAuth scope boundary because Admin.Write is required for sibling storage policy mutation routes.
Reproduction
Preconditions:
1. The instance has a OneDrive storage policy.
2. An admin user authorizes an OAuth client for Admin.Read but not Admin.Write.
3. The OAuth client obtains a bearer access token for that admin user.
Send the following request with that read-only admin scoped token:
POST /api/v4/admin/policy/oauth/signin HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer <admin OAuth token scoped to Admin.Read only>
Content-Type: application/json
{"id":1,"secret":"attacker-secret","app_id":"attacker-app-id"}
Expected secure result: the request is rejected with an insufficient-scope error because it changes storage policy credentials.
Actual result: the request reaches AdminOdOAuthURL, and GetOauthRedirectService.GetOAuth() persists the supplied values to the storage policy.
Root cause
routers/router.go applies RequiredScopes(types.ScopeAdminRead) to the authenticated admin route group. Sibling policy mutation routes add local RequiredScopes(types.ScopeAdminWrite) guards, for exa
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Exploitation outlook
- Low exploitation risk0.34% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 26% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
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