High 8.8Published Aug 28, 2026

CVE-2026-55485Piccolo Admin: Privilege escalation - admin to superuser via session-token disclosure in GET /api/tables/sessions/.

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 13:10 UTC)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

Piccolo Admin is an admin interface and content management system for Python, built on top of Piccolo. Prior to 1.14.0, piccolo_admin/endpoints.py uses superuser_validators to block PUT, PATCH, DELETE, and POST requests by non-superusers but permits GET requests to configured user and session tables, while piccolo_api/session_auth/tables.py exposes SessionsBase.token because the token column is not secret. In deployments that add the Sessions and User tables to create_admin, a non-superuser administrator can call GET /api/tables/sessions/, obtain another user's live session token, replay it as the Cookie id value to impersonate a superuser, and permanently set superuser to true on the attacker's own row. This issue is fixed in version 1.14.0.

CVSS: 8.8 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-200, CWE-269, CWE-863
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Aug 31, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

piccolo-orm piccolo_admin piccolo_orm:piccolo_admin (from the name)	before 1.14.0	CNA record

References

https://github.com/piccolo-orm/piccolo_admin/security/advisories/GHSA-2gh4-jmwq-rr8wx-refsource-confirm
https://github.com/piccolo-orm/piccolo_api/pull/331x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/piccolo-orm/piccolo_admin/commit/96ddae12baf12288056cbb0cda6f9e8d7e22c86dx-refsource-misc
https://github.com/piccolo-orm/piccolo_api/commit/520ec2567ae1d2cc417c8c0d1ad0ddc05549a8a4x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/piccolo-orm/piccolo_admin/releases/tag/1.14.0x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/piccolo-orm/piccolo_api/releases/tag/1.10.0x-refsource-misc

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