CVE-2026-28230CWE-284

In SteVe, any authenticated charger can terminate any other charger's active transaction (missing ownership verification on StopTransaction)

Medium · published February 26, 2026

CVSS v4.0
5.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
20.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

SteVe is an open-source EV charging station management system. In versions up to and including 3.11.0, when a charger sends a StopTransaction message, SteVe looks up the transaction solely by transactionId (a sequential integer starting from 1) without verifying that the requesting charger matches the charger that originally started the transaction. Any authenticated charger can terminate any other charger’s active session across the entire network. The root cause is in OcppServerRepositoryImpl.getTransaction() which queries only by transactionId with no chargeBoxId ownership check. The validator checks that the transaction exists and is not already stopped but never verifies identity. As an attacker controlling a single registered charger I could enumerate sequential transaction IDs and send StopTransaction messages targeting active sessions on every other charger on the network simultaneously. Combined with FINDING-014 (unauthenticated SOAP endpoints), no registered charger is even required — the attack is executable with a single curl command requiring only a known chargeBoxId. Commit 7f169c6c5b36a9c458ec41ce8af581972e5c724e contains a fix for the issue.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
5.7 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
EPSS
0.00287 · 20.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-284 · Improper Access Control
Published
2026-02-26T22:49Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 FEB 22:49Z
    In SteVe, any authenticated charger can terminate any other charger's active transaction (missing ownership verification on StopTransaction)
    cvelistv5