Improper access control in CloudStack's annotation functionality allows unauthorized comment creation and disclosure. The addAnnotation and listAnnotation APIs perform an ownership check when an entity's UUID is specified, but fail to honor its result correctly. This lets any authenticated user write annotations to, and disclose existing annotations/comments on, an entity they don't own by simply supplying its UUID. This issue affects Apache CloudStack: from 4.15.0.0 through 4.20.3.0 and from 4.21.0.0 through 4.22.1.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.20.3.1 or 4.22.1.1 or later, which fixes the issue.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/g6cwddtjrwbh1d56wjz4cfp3fzfm4kbc Mailing List, Vendor 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 5.4 · apacheNVD modified 2026-10-16 15:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cloudstack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 1
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/g6cwddtjrwbh1d56wjz4cfp3fzfm4kbc Mailing List, Vendor Advisory