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CVE-2026-43913: Vaultwarden: Unconfirmed Owner Can Purge Entire Organization Vault
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2026-05-11 · updated 2026-10-26
- Weakness: CWE-863
Description
Vaultwarden is a Bitwarden-compatible server written in Rust. Prior to 1.35.5, Vaultwarden allows an unconfirmed organization owner to purge the entire organization vault. The organization invite flow uses a two-step process: accepting an invite transitions membership from Invited to Accepted, and a separate confirmation by an existing owner upgrades it to Confirmed. The POST /api/ciphers/purge endpoint uses plain Headers and only checks that the membership type is Owner without verifying that the membership status is Confirmed. An authenticated user who has been invited as an organization owner and has accepted the invite and has not yet been confirmed can call this endpoint to hard-delete all ciphers and attachments in the organization, causing immediate organization-wide data loss. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.35.5.
Affected products
- dani-garcia vaultwarden: before 1.35.5 — fixed in 1.35.5
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: dani-garcia vaultwarden 1.35.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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