{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00006167","kind":"vulnerability","title":"Formwork improperly validates input of User role preventing site and panel availability","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-c85w-x26q-ch87"],"plain_summary":"OSV carries this publisher advisory for getformwork/formwork. This is an aggregated source copy; consult the original publisher and compare update dates.","review_status":"source_listed","control_topics":[],"public_actions":[{"summary":"The original advisory lists fixed boundaries 2.0.0-beta.4 for getformwork/formwork. Confirm the publisher’s latest guidance.","source_ids":["sr-aa1ae721deaf846f18f679ceb401c845"],"action_type":"vendor_patch","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null}],"schema_version":"1.1.0","source_metrics":[],"why_it_matters":"Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-aa1ae721deaf846f18f679ceb401c845","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c85w-x26q-ch87","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub-origin advisory, CC-BY-4.0; OSV is an aggregate copy, not independent corroboration.","title":"GHSA-c85w-x26q-ch87","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database via OSV","observed_at":"2026-10-31T21:42:10.696Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-aa1ae721deaf846f18f679ceb401c845"],"technology":"getformwork/formwork","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"### Summary\nImproper validation of select fields allows attackers to craft an input that crashes the system, resulting in a 500 status and making the entire site and administration panel unavailable.\nThis clearly impacts the Availability aspect of the CIA triad (confidentiality, integrity, and availability), although the attack still has certain limitations.\n\n### Details\nThe attack involves injecting any invalid user role value. Doing this will change the users data in a way that prevents users and then the entire site from loading. Even though the actual data change is minimal, the error is unrecoverable until a valid role parameter is restored by direct modification of the user account file.\nProper validation of select fields will prevent extraneous valid from being accepted and making the entire site and administration panel unavailable.\n\n### Patches\n- **Formwork 2.x** (d9f0c1f) adds proper validation to select fields.\n\n### Impact\nThe condition for this attack is having high privileges or Admin access, which means it could be exploited by an Insider Threat. Alternatively, if an attacker ga","public_affected_ranges":["ECOSYSTEM: introduced 2.0.0-beta.1; fixed 2.0.0-beta.4"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-10-31T22:13:05.872Z","source_updated_at":"2026-02-22T23:16:47.173Z","source_disclosed_at":"2025-03-01T00:11:52.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-10-31T21:42:10.696Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}