CVE-2026-40259 HIGH

CVE-2026-40259: SiYuan: Publish Reader Can Arbitrarily Delete Attribute View Files via removeUnusedAttributeView API

Vendor Siyuan-Note
Product siyuan
Weakness CWE-285
Published April 16, 2026
Last update April 20, 2026

CVSS base score

8.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

SiYuan is an open-source personal knowledge management system. In versions 3.6.3 and below, the /api/av/removeUnusedAttributeView endpoint is protected only by generic authentication that accepts publish-service RoleReader tokens. The handler passes a caller-controlled id directly to a model function that unconditionally deletes the corresponding attribute view file from the workspace without verifying that the caller has write privileges or that the target attribute view is actually unused. An authenticated publish-service reader can permanently delete arbitrary attribute view definitions by extracting publicly exposed data-av-id values from published content, causing breakage of database views and workspace rendering until manually restored. This issue has been fixed in version 3.6.4.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 16, 2026 CVE published
April 20, 2026 Record updated