# CVE-2025-71433: Kaneo missing authorization in API routes

Source: https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-71433-kaneo-before-2-1-6-contains-a-missing-authorization-vulnerability  
Publisher: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, https://junglewise.ai/threats  
Published: 2026-10-14. Updated: 2026-10-16  
License: CC BY 4.0 with a link back

CVE-2025-71433 · Severity: high · CVSS 7.5 · Published 2026-10-14

Kaneo is an open-source project management platform. A missing authorization flaw allows authenticated users to access, modify, or delete data from workspaces they do not belong to by directly supplying resource identifiers in API requests. An attacker who learns project IDs from shared links can read sensitive tasks and comments, modify project data, and disrupt operations.

Technologies: [Kaneo](https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/kaneo). Vendors: [Kaneo](https://junglewise.ai/threats/vendors/kaneo).

## Quick answers

**Is CVE-2025-71433 exploited in the wild?** No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-71433 being exploited in the wild.

**How severe is CVE-2025-71433?** High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.5, published 14 October 2026.

**Which products and versions are affected?** Kaneo before 2.1.6.

**Is there a fix for CVE-2025-71433?** Yes: fixed in 2.1.6. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.

**How is CVE-2025-71433 attacked?** It is attacked over the network, in a web application.

**Am I affected by CVE-2025-71433?** Check whether you run Kaneo at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

## How to fix

- Fixed in 2.1.6

## Technical details

The API routes in Kaneo lack membership checks when processing identifiers for projects, tasks, labels, and workspace resources. An authenticated attacker can enumerate or obtain resource identifiers (for example, from shared project links) and submit them directly to API endpoints that do not validate workspace membership, gaining unauthorized read and write access. The vulnerability affects versions before 2.1.6.

## Affected products

- Kaneo Kaneo before 2.1.6

## Timeline

- 2026-10-14: disclosed

## References

- [https://github.com/usekaneo/kaneo](https://github.com/usekaneo/kaneo)
- [https://github.com/usekaneo/kaneo/blob/v2.1.5/apps/api/src/task/index.ts](https://github.com/usekaneo/kaneo/blob/v2.1.5/apps/api/src/task/index.ts)

## Related threats

- [Kaneo information disclosure in external link API endpoint](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-125329-kaneo-is-a-project-management-application-with-boards-gantt)
- [Kaneo missing authorization in bulk task endpoint](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-63104-kaneo-versions-2-3-12-before-2-12-2-contain-a-missing)