HighCVE-2026-57579

    Alchemy: Unauthenticated nested page API leaks restricted & unpublished content (CVE-2026-57579)

    Published Last modified Sources: OSV, CVE.org

    What is affected, what to do

    Alchemy is an open source content management system engine written in Ruby on Rails. Prior to 7.4.15, 8.0.15, 8.1.14, and 8.2.6, the unauthenticated GET /api/pages/nested endpoint implemented by Api::PagesController#nested in app/controllers/alchemy/api/pages_controller.rb returns an unfiltered page tree because it performs no authorization and does not scope descendants by the caller's ability.

    Update Alchemy CMS to version 7.4.15.

    Affected
    • Alchemy CMS gte 8.0.0, < 8.0.15..*
    • Alchemy CMS lt *..7.4.15
    Fixed in
    • Alchemy CMS 7.4.15

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    Metrics

    7.5

    Priority

    XIEM Effective CVSS: highest available CVSS rating from NVD and vendor data.

    Source: Vendor (CNA), CVSS v3

    7.5

    CVSS v3

    Severity High on the scale from 0 to 10.

    Source: OSV, CVE.org

    0.7 %

    EPSS score

    Low — model estimates < 1% exploitation likelihood.

    Source: FIRST EPSS, percentile 50.8

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    Severity
    High
    Priority (0–325)

    The priority score is a consolidated metric that condenses several individual signals into a single, action-guiding ranking: technical severity (CVSS), exploitation likelihood (EPSS), known-exploited status (KEV) and the context of the affected asset. The aim is to answer the only truly important question in vulnerability management: what first?

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    85.49 Methodology
    Exploit maturity

    An exploit is code or a technique that specifically uses a concrete vulnerability to force unintended behaviour — such as executing code or escalating privileges. It is the tool that turns a theoretical flaw into a practical attack.

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    no public PoC known
    XIEM Effective CVSS

    XIEM® is the tiered managed-security operating model from NEOSEC and a registered trademark of NEOSEC GmbH. It extends classic SIEM — the central collection, normalisation and correlation of security-relevant events — with endpoint forensics, network visibility and deception technology, and consolidates them into three building tiers: Sentry, Orchestrate and Command.

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    7.5 Methodology
    CVSS v3

    CVSS is the globally established, open standard for assessing the technical severity of a vulnerability on a scale from 0 to 10. It describes how easily a flaw can be exploited and what damage it can cause — but not how likely its actual exploitation is. CVSS and the complementary EPSS deliberately answer different questions.

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    7.5
    EPSS score

    The EPSS score is the absolute model output for an individual vulnerability: the estimated probability of real-world exploitation within the next 30 days, expressed as a value between 0 and 1 (i.e. 0 % to 100 %). A score of 0.42 means „the model estimates a 42 % chance of real-world exploitation within 30 days“.

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    0.7 %
    Low — model estimates < 1% exploitation likelihood.
    EPSS percentile

    The EPSS percentile is the relative position of a vulnerability within all EPSS-scored CVEs, expressed as a value between 0 and 1. A percentile of 0.90 means „this CVE has a higher EPSS score than 90 % of all other scored CVEs“. Unlike the EPSS score, it is not a probability — but a positioning within a ranking.

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    50.8
    High — this CVE ranks above the median of all CVEs scored today (rank ≥ 36%).
    KEV status

    The KEV catalogue is a list maintained by the US authority CISA of vulnerabilities for which active exploitation in the wild has been confirmed. It answers not the question „how severe?“ but „is it already being attacked?“ — thereby sharply prioritising patching.

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    Published
    CWE

    CWE is a catalogue of typical weakness types in software and hardware — such as flawed input validation, unsafe memory handling or poor authentication. Where a CVE names a concrete vulnerability in a concrete product, a CWE describes the underlying class of defect.

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    CWE-862

    Detection rules

    No NEOSEC detection rule is available for this vulnerability yet.

    Classification under NIS2 and CRA

    Rule-based classification from exploitation status and severity. It does not replace a case-by-case assessment.

    NIS2

    NIS2 is EU Directive (EU) 2022/2555 to raise the level of cybersecurity across the Union. It substantially broadens obligations compared with the first NIS directive: more sectors, mandatory risk management, staged reporting duties and personal accountability of senior management.

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    High technical severity: assess and remediate the vulnerability in vulnerability handling under Art. 21(2)(e) NIS2 and document the decision.
    CRA

    The CRA is EU Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 setting horizontal cybersecurity requirements for „products with digital elements“ — from industrial controllers and software to connected consumer devices. For the first time manufacturers must ensure security across the entire product lifecycle, handle vulnerabilities and provide security updates.

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    From 11.12.2027, Annex I Part II CRA requires manufacturers of affected products with digital elements to handle vulnerabilities without delay and provide security updates.
    ISO/IEC 27001

    ISO/IEC 27001 is the internationally leading standard for an information security management system (ISMS). It describes a risk-based, process-oriented framework to systematically plan, implement, review and improve information security.

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    Control A.8.8, management of technical vulnerabilities: assess relevance to your systems, plan remediation and keep evidence.

    Description

    Alchemy is an open source content management system engine written in Ruby on Rails. Prior to 7.4.15, 8.0.15, 8.1.14, and 8.2.6, the unauthenticated GET /api/pages/nested endpoint implemented by Api::PagesController#nested in app/controllers/alchemy/api/pages_controller.rb returns an unfiltered page tree because it performs no authorization and does not scope descendants by the caller's ability. Anonymous callers can retrieve restricted and unpublished page metadata that the sibling show action denies. When elements=true is supplied, PageTreeSerializer also returns element and ingredient content from restricted pages because PageTreePreloader and the serializer do not apply an ability check to those records. This issue is fixed in versions 7.4.15, 8.0.15, 8.1.14, and 8.2.6.

    Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities), cvelistv5, NVD (NIST)

    Affected products

    The following versions are affected. Older releases of the same product line are also vulnerable unless stated otherwise.

    Affected products
    Affected versionsFixed in
    AlchemyCMSalchemy_cms
    • ≥ 8.0.0, < 8.0.15
    • < 7.4.15
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    • 7.4.15
    rubygemsalchemy_cms
    • 2.1.6
    • 5.1.3
    • 8.2.4
    • 2.2.3.2
    • 2.2.0
    • 7.2.0.rc1
    • 4.0.0
    • 3.0.1
    • 5.1.1
    • 8.0.4
    • 8.0.0
    • 4.2.3
    • 4.0.0.beta
    • 4.0.4
    • 3.4.1
    • 8.1.9
    • 4.6.6
    • 6.0.11
    • 2.4.rc4
    • 8.0.0.c
    • 7.1.10
    • 4.1.2
    • 7.2.6
    • 4.4.4
    • 2.7.3
    • 7.2.2
    • 3.0.0.rc8
    • 2.5.1
    • 3.2.0.beta
    • 7.4.4
    • 3.1.0.beta3
    • 2.7.5
    • 8.1.11
    • 7.1.9
    • 2.5.3
    • 2.1.11
    • 3.5.0.rc2
    • 7.4.1
    • 2.4.beta2
    • 3.2.0.rc1
    • 8.1.10
    • 7.0.14
    • 8.0.7
    • 2.2.rc14
    • 2.1.rc6
    • 3.1.0.rc1
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    Vendors and products

    Weakness classes (CWE)

    • CWE-862Missing Authorization

      Class

      The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

      Entry at MITRE CWE-862

    References & sources

    • github.comAlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/security/advisories/GHSA-mqq5-j7w8-2hghx_refsource_CONFIRM
    • github.comAlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/pull/3982x_refsource_MISC
    • github.comAlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/commit/30888fb41d8b71fdfb3b116a7efccd851…x_refsource_MISC
    • github.comAlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/commit/5620e76f0d274d6f69f34281b7e46d018…x_refsource_MISC
    • github.comAlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/commit/8417a2e9dcb00653c8b238f8a040b0953…x_refsource_MISC
    • github.comAlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/commit/85702d9fe4e247649b1358900c5af853e…x_refsource_MISC
    • github.comAlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/commit/a082dd0afe188d199f386a5e1db01987d…x_refsource_MISC
    • github.comAlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/releases/tag/v7.4.15x_refsource_MISC
    • github.comAlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/releases/tag/v8.0.15x_refsource_MISC
    • github.comAlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/releases/tag/v8.1.14x_refsource_MISC
    • github.comAlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/releases/tag/v8.2.6x_refsource_MISC
    • github.comAlchemyCMS/alchemy_cmspackage

    Changes to this CVE

    Who changed this CVE and when: NVD (analysis, affected products, CVSS), the CVE publisher (CNA) and additional providers such as CISA (ADP).

    1. Record modifiedCISA ADP

      CISA assessment (SSVC): exploitation: proof of concept, automatable: yes

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      Individual changes of this event as published by NVD
      TypeActionBeforeAfter
      Referenceadded
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      https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/security/advisories/GHSA-mqq5-j7w8-2hgh
      SSVC assessmentadded
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      {"id":"CVE-2026-57579","role":"CISA Coordinator","options":[{"exploitation":"poc"},{"automatable":"yes"},{"technicalImpact":"partial"}],"version":"2.0.3","timestamp":"2026-09-14T17:39:44.487415Z"}

      Source identifier: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

    2. ReceivedGitHub

      CVSS V3.1: AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

      Weakness type: CWE-862

      Description added or changed

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      Individual changes of this event as published by NVD
      TypeActionBeforeAfter
      Descriptionadded
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      Alchemy is an open source content management system engine written in Ruby on Rails. Prior to 7.4.15, 8.0.15, 8.1.14, and 8.2.6, the unauthenticated GET /api/pages/nested endpoint implemented by Api::PagesController#nested in app/controllers/alchemy/api/pages_controller.rb returns an unfiltered page tree because it performs no authorization and does not scope descendants by the caller's ability. Anonymous callers can retrieve restricted and unpublished page metadata that the sibling show action denies. When elements=true is supplied, PageTreeSerializer also returns element and ingredient content from restricted pages because PageTreePreloader and the serializer do not apply an ability check to those records. This issue is fixed in versions 7.4.15, 8.0.15, 8.1.14, and 8.2.6.
      CVSSadded
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      AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
      Weakness type (CWE)added
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      CWE-862
      Affected versions (publisher)added
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      New affected value received. <a href="https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/main/cves/2026/57xxx/CVE-2026-57579.json">CVE-2026-57579</a>
      Referenceadded
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      https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/commit/30888fb41d8b71fdfb3b116a7efccd851d73e1f3
      Referenceadded
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      https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/commit/5620e76f0d274d6f69f34281b7e46d01879f6b99
      Referenceadded
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      https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/commit/8417a2e9dcb00653c8b238f8a040b09532dd4c0f
      Referenceadded
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      https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/commit/85702d9fe4e247649b1358900c5af853e83b4a3a
      Referenceadded
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      https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/commit/a082dd0afe188d199f386a5e1db01987d0de807f
      Referenceadded
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      https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/pull/3982
      Referenceadded
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      https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/releases/tag/v7.4.15
      Referenceadded
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      https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/releases/tag/v8.0.15
      Referenceadded
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      https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/releases/tag/v8.1.14
      Referenceadded
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      https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/releases/tag/v8.2.6
      Referenceadded
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      https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms/security/advisories/GHSA-mqq5-j7w8-2hgh

      Source identifier: security-advisories@github.com

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