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Improper Authentication

CVE-2026-21854

Severity High
Score 9.8/10

Summary

The Tarkov Data Manager is a tool to manage the Tarkov item data. Prior to 02 January 2025, an authentication bypass vulnerability in the login endpoint allows any unauthenticated user to gain full admin access to the Tarkov Data Manager admin panel by exploiting a JavaScript prototype property access vulnerability, combined with loose equality type coercion. A series of fix commits on 02 January 2025 fixed this and other vulnerabilities.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-287 - Improper Authentication

Improper (or broken) authentication attacks are widespread, and have accounted for many of the worst data breaches in recent years. Improper authentication attacks are a class of vulnerabilities where an attacker impersonates a legitimate user by exploiting weaknesses in either session management or credential management to gain access to the user’s account. This can result in disclosure of sensitive information, and can lead to system compromise, theft, identity theft, and fraud.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published