CVE-2026-41492 CRITICAL

CVE-2026-41492: Unauthenticated Admin Token Disclosure Leading to Authentication Bypass via /debug/vars in Dgraph

Vendor Dgraph-Io
Product dgraph
Weakness CWE-200 · Info exposure
Published April 24, 2026
Last update April 24, 2026

CVSS base score

9.8/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Dgraph is an open source distributed GraphQL database. Prior to 25.3.3, Dgraphl exposes the process command line through the unauthenticated /debug/vars endpoint on Alpha. Because the admin token is commonly supplied via the --security "token=..." startup flag, an unauthenticated attacker can retrieve that token and replay it in the X-Dgraph-AuthToken header to access admin-only endpoints. This is a variant of the previously fixed /debug/pprof/cmdline issue, but the current fix is incomplete because it blocks only /debug/pprof/cmdline and still serves http.DefaultServeMux, which includes expvar's /debug/vars handler. This vulnerability is fixed in 25.3.3.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 24, 2026 CVE published
April 24, 2026 Record updated