Quick answers
- Is This vulnerability exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of This vulnerability being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is This vulnerability?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 8.8, published 24 July 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Poweradmin >= 4.0.0, < 4.2.5.
- Is there a fix for This vulnerability?
- A patch was published on 2026-07-24: Advisory updated with patched versions 4.2.5 and 4.3.4 Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
- How is This vulnerability attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected?
- Check whether you run Poweradmin 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.
Technical details
A broken access control vulnerability exists in the Poweradmin REST API user-update endpoints (V1 and V2). The API fails to mirror security checks present in the web UI, specifically missing a check to prevent non-superusers from editing superuser accounts and failing to verify the 'user_passwd_edit_others' permission before updating a password. An authenticated attacker with a delegated 'user manager' role can exploit this by sending a PUT or PATCH request to /api/v2/users/{id} to change the administrator's password. This results in full account takeover and administrative control over the PowerDNS backend. Patches are available in versions 4.2.5 and 4.3.4.
Affected products
- poweradmin poweradmin >= 4.0.0, < 4.2.5
- poweradmin poweradmin >= 4.3.0, < 4.3.4
Timeline
- 2026-07-23: advisory: Initial GitHub Advisory published
- 2026-07-24: patched: Advisory updated with patched versions 4.2.5 and 4.3.4