{"id":"CVE-2026-59229","aliases":["EUVD-2026-107167","GHSA-6m49-362q-wcpg"],"status":"published","title":"Apache IoTDB: Legacy Pipe Privilege Escalation","description":"The Legacy Pipe receiver protocol (handshake / sendPipeData) uses a\nhardcoded SUPER_USER (root) identity when executing data loading and\ndeletion operations. A user with only SYSTEM-level privileges (such as\nUSE_PIPE or MAINTAIN) who does NOT have WRITE_DATA or DELETE_DATA\npermissions on target databases can send specially crafted PipeData\nmessages through the Legacy Pipe API, resulting in data loading/deletion\noperations executed as root — effectively bypassing IoTDB's permission\nmodel entirely.\n\n\n\nThis issue affects Apache IoTDB: from 2.0.0 before 2.0.11.\n\n\n\nUsers are recommended to upgrade to version 2.0.11, which fixes the issue.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"adp","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-10","score":0.00449,"percentile":0.393,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-798"],"published":"2026-10-21T11:11:46Z","modified":"2026-10-30T15:34:12Z","products":[{"vendor":"apache software foundation","product":"apache iotdb"}],"references":[{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/yzx26fb9v1vwk1zqs700cf1mrctjrb3d","tags":["vendor-advisory"]},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/21/21"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59229"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6m49-362q-wcpg"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-59229","title":"Apache IoTDB: Legacy Pipe Privilege Escalation","description":"The Legacy Pipe receiver protocol (handshake / sendPipeData) uses a\nhardcoded SUPER_USER (root) identity when executing data loading and\ndeletion operations. A user with only SYSTEM-level privileges (such as\nUSE_PIPE or MAINTAIN) who does NOT have WRITE_DATA or DELETE_DATA\npermissions on target databases can send specially crafted PipeData\nmessages through the Legacy Pipe API, resulting in data loading/deletion\noperations executed as root — effectively bypassing IoTDB's permission\nmodel entirely.\n\n\n\nThis issue affects Apache IoTDB: from 2.0.0 before 2.0.11.\n\n\n\nUsers are recommended to upgrade to version 2.0.11, which fixes the issue.","status":"published","published":"2026-10-21T11:11:46.924Z","modified":"2026-10-30T13:33:53.498Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"adp"}],"cwes":["CWE-798"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:19:58.560602Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-107167","description":"The Legacy Pipe receiver protocol (handshake / sendPipeData) uses a\nhardcoded SUPER_USER (root) identity when executing data loading and\ndeletion operations. A user with only SYSTEM-level privileges (such as\nUSE_PIPE or MAINTAIN) who does NOT have WRITE_DATA or DELETE_DATA\npermissions on target databases can send specially crafted PipeData\nmessages through the Legacy Pipe API, resulting in data loading/deletion\noperations executed as root — effectively bypassing IoTDB's permission\nmodel entirely.\n\n\n\nThis issue affects Apache IoTDB: from 2.0.0 before 2.0.11.\n\n\n\nUsers are recommended to upgrade to version 2.0.11, which fixes the issue.","status":"published","published":"2026-10-21T11:11:46Z","modified":"2026-10-30T13:33:53Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T16:59:06.607412Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-6m49-362q-wcpg","title":"The Legacy Pipe receiver protocol (handshake / sendPipeData) uses a\nhardcoded SUPER_USER (root)...","description":"The Legacy Pipe receiver protocol (handshake / sendPipeData) uses a\nhardcoded SUPER_USER (root) identity when executing data loading and\ndeletion operations. A user with only SYSTEM-level privileges (such as\nUSE_PIPE or MAINTAIN) who does NOT have WRITE_DATA or DELETE_DATA\npermissions on target databases can send specially crafted PipeData\nmessages through the Legacy Pipe API, resulting in data loading/deletion\noperations executed as root — effectively bypassing IoTDB's permission\nmodel entirely.\n\n\n\nThis issue affects Apache IoTDB: from 2.0.0 before 2.0.11.\n\n\n\nUsers are recommended to upgrade to version 2.0.11, which fixes the issue.","status":"published","published":"2026-10-21T12:31:09Z","modified":"2026-10-30T15:34:12Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-798"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:14:48.577424Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-59229","description":"The Legacy Pipe receiver protocol (handshake / sendPipeData) uses a\nhardcoded SUPER_USER (root) identity when executing data loading and\ndeletion operations. A user with only SYSTEM-level privileges (such as\nUSE_PIPE or MAINTAIN) who does NOT have WRITE_DATA or DELETE_DATA\npermissions on target databases can send specially crafted PipeData\nmessages through the Legacy Pipe API, resulting in data loading/deletion\noperations executed as root — effectively bypassing IoTDB's permission\nmodel entirely.\n\n\n\nThis issue affects Apache IoTDB: from 2.0.0 before 2.0.11.\n\n\n\nUsers are recommended to upgrade to version 2.0.11, which fixes the issue.","status":"published","published":"2026-10-21T12:17:21.92Z","modified":"2026-10-30T14:17:07.013Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-798"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:13:02.045979Z"}]}}