CVE•Published 2026-08-17•Modified 2026-09-09•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data

CVE-2026-57485

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

8.5

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

EPSS percentile

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 83% of all CVEs

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-200Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor CWE-522Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Description

Stirling-PDF is a locally hosted web application that facilitates various operations on PDF files. Prior to 2.9.0, the /api/v1/pipeline/handleData endpoint in app/core/src/main/java/stirling/software/SPDF/controller/api/pipeline/PipelineProcessor.java injects the STIRLING-PDF-BACKEND-API-USER API key into pipeline subrequests, allowing an authenticated ROLE_USER to retrieve the key through /api/v1/user/get-api-key, impersonate the internal service account, bypass normal rate limits, and access internal endpoints including /api/v1/info/requests/all and /api/v1/info/load/all. This issue is fixed in version 2.9.0.

Timeline

Published 2026-08-17

Modified 2026-09-09

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB GitHub PoC trickest/cve VulnCheck

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