GHSA-vh56-5m88-39rq
ApostropheCMS: GET /api/v1/@apostrophecms/page/:id bypasses viewRole restriction and exposes viewPermission-gated fields to lower-privileged users
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | apostrophe | < 4.34.0 | 4.34.0 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Summary
The `getOne` REST endpoint for pages does not apply `viewRole` type-level restrictions
or `viewPermission` field-level redaction. An editor-level user who knows a document
`_id` can read the full content of admin-only pages and their privileged fields, while
the `getAll` endpoint correctly enforces both restrictions.
### Details
**Finding 3 — viewRole bypass:**
`modules/@apostrophecms/page/index.js` exposes `getRestQuery(req, omitPermissionCheck =
false)`. The `getAll` path calls `publicApiCheckAsync` and threads the full query builder
pipeline including `viewRole` filtering. The `getOne` path uses a divergent code path
that skips this pipeline.
A page type declared with `viewRole: 'admin'` is inaccessible via `GET
/api/v1/@apostrophecms/page?type=secretPage` (returns 403 to an editor) but is fully
returned by `GET /api/v1/@apostrophecms/page/:id:en:published` to the same editor.
**Finding 4 — viewPermission field leak:**
Fields decorated with `viewPermission: { action: 'edit', type: '@apostrophecms/page' }`
are stripped by `removeForbiddenFields` in the `getAll` path but are returned verbatim
in `getOne`. An editor who knows any document `_id` can read all
`viewPermission`-restricted fields.
### PoC
```bash
# Log in as editor, get session jar
EDITOR_JAR="..."
# getAll — correctly blocked
curl -b "$EDITOR_JAR" \
"http://TARGET/api/v1/@apostrophecms/page?type=secretPage"
# → 403 Forbidden
# getOne — bypassed, returns full document including viewPermission fields
curl -b "$EDITOR_JAR" \
"http://TARGET/api/v1/@apostrophecms/page/ADMIN_PAGE_ID:en:published"
# → 200 OK, full doc including secretField value
```
### Impact
Editors can read the full content of any page — including those restricted to admins via
`viewRole` — if they know or can guess the `_id`. Sensitive field values gated by
`viewPermission` are also fully exposed. This breaks the content access control model
for any site using these decorators.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/security/advisories/GHSA-vh56-5m88-39rq
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-112957
- https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/commit/06e4b377f3c360f9e89c32dccd7e505ad5ddf498
- https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/commit/40b989b1a9dd23d30029b8ce7668634265cfe5ea
- https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe
- https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/releases/tag/[email protected]