Bitwarden Server before 2026.5.0 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows authenticated Custom users with ManageUsers permission to remove Admin accounts from an organization by exploiting a missing role hierarchy check in the bulk user-remove endpoint. Attackers can supply Admin organization-user IDs in a bulk DELETE request to bypass the guard enforced on the single-user removal path, effectively removing one or more Admin accounts from an organization.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2
- https://github.com/bitwarden/server/commit/901bb67157c0f80d369c40b76742fdf7623da4e4 Patch
- https://sanjokkarki.com.np/blog/bitwarden-bulk-remove-admin Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.1 · bitwardenNVD modified 2026-10-25 22:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:bitwarden:server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 5
- https://github.com/bitwarden/server/commit/901bb67157c0f80d369c40b76742fdf7623da4e4 Patch
- https://github.com/bitwarden/server/pull/7526 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/bitwarden/server/releases/tag/v2026.5.0 Release Notes
- https://sanjokkarki.com.np/blog/bitwarden-bulk-remove-admin Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/bitwarden-server-privilege-escalation-via-bulk-user-remove-endpoint Third Party Advisory