Description
Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision vulnerability in Apache APISIX.

This vulnerability allows an attacker to escalate privilege or perform an authorization bypass by sending certain values that the attach-consumer-label plugin does not sanitise correctly.


This issue affects Apache APISIX: from 3.11.0 through 3.17.0.



Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.18.0, which fixes the issue.
Published: 2026-08-26
Score: 5.3 Medium
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:45:00 +0000

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Description Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision vulnerability in Apache APISIX. This vulnerability allows an attacker to escalate privilege or perform an authorization bypass by sending certain values that the attach-consumer-label plugin does not sanitise correctly. This issue affects Apache APISIX: from 3.11.0 through 3.17.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.18.0, which fixes the issue.
Title Apache APISIX: attach-consumer-label does not strip client-supplied consumer-label headers
Weaknesses CWE-807
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-26T12:31:31.308Z

Reserved: 2026-07-15T06:02:37.973Z

Link: CVE-2026-63041

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Updated: 2026-08-26T12:30:05Z

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