CVE-2026-123617

Description

Openwhyd before 1.65.1 contains a NoSQL injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to manipulate user lookups by passing JSON objects in the id parameter. Attackers can send MongoDB query operators such as $ne or $gt to POST /api/user to select and enumerate other users' public profile records.

References

• https://github.com/openwhyd/openwhyd/blob/v1.65.0/app/models/user.js#L288-L294
• https://github.com/openwhyd/openwhyd/commit/167c45d6754df0adb3415f71cbd7cde91cbe7874
• https://github.com/openwhyd/openwhyd/releases/tag/v1.65.1
• https://github.com/openwhyd/openwhyd/security/advisories/GHSA-hfg3-vq24-hprp
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openwhyd-before-1.65.1-nosql-injection-via-post-api-user