CVE-2026-55485CWE-200CWE-269CWE-863broken-access-controlprivilege-escalationinformation-disclosure

CVE-2026-55485

High · published August 29, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
46.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Piccolo Admin is an admin interface and content management system for Python, built on top of Piccolo. Prior to 1.14.0, piccolo_admin/endpoints.py uses superuser_validators to block PUT, PATCH, DELETE, and POST requests by non-superusers but permits GET requests to configured user and session tables, while piccolo_api/session_auth/tables.py exposes SessionsBase.token because the token column is not secret. In deployments that add the Sessions and User tables to create_admin, a non-superuser administrator can call GET /api/tables/sessions/, obtain another user's live session token, replay it as the Cookie id value to impersonate a superuser, and permanently set superuser to true on the attacker's own row. This issue is fixed in version 1.14.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00564 · 46.1th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor; CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management; CWE-863 · Incorrect Authorization
Published
2026-08-29T00:18Z
References (7)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 AUG 16:18Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 28 AUG 18:13Z
    Piccolo Admin: Privilege escalation - admin to superuser via session-token disclosure in GET /api/tables/sessions/.
    cvelistv5