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CVE-2026-54104

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Electronic Protest Docketing System (EPDS) and Civilian Board of Contract Appeals (CBCA) Electronic Docketing System (EDS) trusts client-provided values for the 'epds_role_id' parameter without verification, allowing a remote, authenticated attacker to escalate their own privileges.
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:a37cb19dcb08bcb8af97deec1f5fcd8b844e4bb7fa46caafc3b085442a954b79
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
2

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

affected · 2 assertions

{"defaultStatus":"unknown","product":"Electronic Protest Docketing System (EPDS)","vendor":"Government Accountability Office","versions":[{"lessThan":"2026-02-22","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"custom"},{"status":"unaffected","version":"2026-02-22"}]}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:e79a52c9f38c3b1c67371543709b312ec5d4684b5a8676af6499663e318f8494 · sha256:46946cd86ffc17c3… · /containers/cna/affected/0

{"defaultStatus":"affected","product":"Electronic Docketing System (EDS)","vendor":"Civilian Board of Contract Appeals","versions":[{"lessThan":"2026-03-19","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"custom"},{"status":"unaffected","version":"2026-03-19"}]}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:e79a52c9f38c3b1c67371543709b312ec5d4684b5a8676af6499663e318f8494 · sha256:46946cd86ffc17c3… · /containers/cna/affected/1
cvss · 2 assertions

{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"NETWORK","availabilityImpact":"HIGH","baseScore":8.8,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","confidentialityImpact":"HIGH","integrityImpact":"HIGH","privilegesRequired":"LOW","scope":"UNCHANGED","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:e79a52c9f38c3b1c67371543709b312ec5d4684b5a8676af6499663e318f8494 · sha256:46946cd86ffc17c3… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackRequirements":"NONE","attackVector":"NETWORK","baseScore":8.7,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","privilegesRequired":"LOW","subAvailabilityImpact":"NONE","subConfidentialityImpact":"NONE","subIntegrityImpact":"NONE","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","version":"4.0","vulnAvailabilityImpact":"HIGH","vulnConfidentialityImpact":"HIGH","vulnIntegrityImpact":"HIGH"},"metric_type":"cvssV4_0"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:e79a52c9f38c3b1c67371543709b312ec5d4684b5a8676af6499663e318f8494 · sha256:46946cd86ffc17c3… · /containers/cna/metrics/1/cvssV4_0

Affected products and versions

2 source assertions
{"defaultStatus":"unknown","product":"Electronic Protest Docketing System (EPDS)","vendor":"Government Accountability Office","versions":[{"lessThan":"2026-02-22","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"custom"},{"status":"unaffected","version":"2026-02-22"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:e79a52c9f38c3b1c67371543709b312ec5d4684b5a8676af6499663e318f8494 · sha256:46946cd86ffc17c3… · /containers/cna/affected/0
{"defaultStatus":"affected","product":"Electronic Docketing System (EDS)","vendor":"Civilian Board of Contract Appeals","versions":[{"lessThan":"2026-03-19","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"custom"},{"status":"unaffected","version":"2026-03-19"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:e79a52c9f38c3b1c67371543709b312ec5d4684b5a8676af6499663e318f8494 · sha256:46946cd86ffc17c3… · /containers/cna/affected/1

Provider-owned CVSS observations

2 source assertions
{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"NETWORK","availabilityImpact":"HIGH","baseScore":8.8,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","confidentialityImpact":"HIGH","integrityImpact":"HIGH","privilegesRequired":"LOW","scope":"UNCHANGED","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:e79a52c9f38c3b1c67371543709b312ec5d4684b5a8676af6499663e318f8494 · sha256:46946cd86ffc17c3… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1
{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackRequirements":"NONE","attackVector":"NETWORK","baseScore":8.7,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","privilegesRequired":"LOW","subAvailabilityImpact":"NONE","subConfidentialityImpact":"NONE","subIntegrityImpact":"NONE","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","version":"4.0","vulnAvailabilityImpact":"HIGH","vulnConfidentialityImpact":"HIGH","vulnIntegrityImpact":"HIGH"},"metric_type":"cvssV4_0"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:e79a52c9f38c3b1c67371543709b312ec5d4684b5a8676af6499663e318f8494 · sha256:46946cd86ffc17c3… · /containers/cna/metrics/1/cvssV4_0

CWE assertions

1 source assertion
{"cweId":"CWE-602","description":"CWE-602 Client-Side Enforcement of Server-Side Security","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:e79a52c9f38c3b1c67371543709b312ec5d4684b5a8676af6499663e318f8494 · sha256:46946cd86ffc17c3… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

4 source assertions
{"name":"url","tags":["product"],"url":"https://epds.gao.gov/"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:e79a52c9f38c3b1c67371543709b312ec5d4684b5a8676af6499663e318f8494 · sha256:46946cd86ffc17c3… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"name":"url","url":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/IT/white/2026/va-26-169-01.json"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:e79a52c9f38c3b1c67371543709b312ec5d4684b5a8676af6499663e318f8494 · sha256:46946cd86ffc17c3… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"name":"url","tags":["vdb-entry"],"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-54104"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:e79a52c9f38c3b1c67371543709b312ec5d4684b5a8676af6499663e318f8494 · sha256:46946cd86ffc17c3… · /containers/cna/references/0
{"name":"url","tags":["product"],"url":"https://www.eds.cbca.gov/login"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:e79a52c9f38c3b1c67371543709b312ec5d4684b5a8676af6499663e318f8494 · sha256:46946cd86ffc17c3… · /containers/cna/references/2

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

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