Wekan is open source kanban built with Meteor. Prior to 9.89, the second Boards.allow({ update }) rule in server/permissions/boards.js called canUpdateBoardSort in server/lib/utils.js, which authorized any board member whenever fieldNames included sort. Because Meteor combines allow rules with OR semantics and applies the complete modifier, a comment-only or read-only member could send one Boards.update with $set values for sort, members, permission, and title, make themselves the sole board administrator, expose a private board, and evict the legitimate owner; the last-admin deny rule inspected only $pull and did not block a wholesale $set of members. Version 9.89 requires sort to be the only modified field and rejects $set member arrays that remove the last active administrator. This issue is fixed in version 9.89.
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| Description | Wekan is open source kanban built with Meteor. Prior to 9.89, the second Boards.allow({ update }) rule in server/permissions/boards.js called canUpdateBoardSort in server/lib/utils.js, which authorized any board member whenever fieldNames included sort. Because Meteor combines allow rules with OR semantics and applies the complete modifier, a comment-only or read-only member could send one Boards.update with $set values for sort, members, permission, and title, make themselves the sole board administrator, expose a private board, and evict the legitimate owner; the last-admin deny rule inspected only $pull and did not block a wholesale $set of members. Version 9.89 requires sort to be the only modified field and rejects $set member arrays that remove the last active administrator. This issue is fixed in version 9.89. | |
| Title | Wekan: a low-privilege board member escalates to board admin and takes over a private board via the `sort` collection-allow rule | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-269 CWE-863 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-19T19:24:58.933Z
Reserved: 2026-07-30T19:56:44.102Z
Link: CVE-2026-68561
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-19T20:17:21.400
Modified: 2026-08-19T20:17:21.400
Link: CVE-2026-68561
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Updated: 2026-08-19T21:45:07Z