CVE-2026-39976 | laravel passport up to 13.7.0 retrieveById improper authentication (ID 1900)

VDB-356633 · CVE-2026-39976 · ID 1900 LARAVEL PASSPORT UP TO 13.7.0 RETRIEVEBYID IMPROPER AUTHENTICATION HISTORYDIFFRELATEJSONXMLCTI CVSS Meta Temp Score Current Exploit Price (≈) CTI Interest Score 5.9 $0-$5k 0.81+ Summaryinfo A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in laravel passport up to 13.7.0. This affects the function retrieveById. The manipulation leads to improper authentication. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-39976. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component. Detailsinfo A vulnerability was found in laravel passport up to 13.7.0. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects the function retrieveById. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is: Laravel Passport provides OAuth2 server support to Laravel. From 13.0.0 to before 13.7.1, there is an Authentication Bypass for client_credentials tokens. the league/oauth2-server library sets the JWT sub claim to the client identifier (since there's no user). The token guard then passes this value to retrieveById() without validating it's actually a user identifier, potentially resolving an unrelated real user. Any machine-to-machine token can inadvertently authenticate as an actual user. This vulnerability is fixed in 13.7.1. The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-39976 since 04/08/2026. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. Upgrading to version 13.7.1 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version. Productinfo Vendor laravel Name passport Version 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7.0 Website Product: https://github.com/laravel/passport/ CPE 2.3info 🔒 🔒 🔒 CPE 2.2info 🔒 🔒 🔒 CVSSv4info VulDB Vector: 🔒 VulDB Reliability: 🔍 CVSSv3info VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.0 VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.9 VulDB Base Score: 5.0 VulDB Temp Score: 4.8 VulDB Vector: 🔒 VulDB Reliability: 🔍 CNA Base Score: 7.1 CNA Vector (GitHub_M): 🔒 CVSSv2info Vector Complexity Authentication Confidentiality Integrity Availability Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock VulDB Base Score: 🔒 VulDB Temp Score: 🔒 VulDB Reliability: 🔍 Exploitinginfo Class: Improper authentication CWE: CWE-287 CAPEC: 🔒 ATT&CK: 🔒 Physical: No Local: No Remote: Yes Availability: 🔒 Status: Not defined Price Prediction: 🔍 Current Price Estimation: 🔒 0-Day Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Today Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Threat Intelligenceinfo Interest: 🔍 Active Actors: 🔍 Active APT Groups: 🔍 Countermeasuresinfo Recommended: Upgrade Status: 🔍 0-Day Time: 🔒 Upgrade: passport 13.7.1 Patch: github.com Timelineinfo 04/08/2026 CVE reserved 04/09/2026 +1 days Advisory disclosed 04/09/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created 04/09/2026 +0 days VulDB entry last update Sourcesinfo Product: github.com Advisory: 1900 Status: Confirmed CVE: CVE-2026-39976 (🔒) GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-39976 GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-356633 Entryinfo Created: 04/09/2026 19:51 Changes: 04/09/2026 19:51 (66) Complete: 🔍 Cache ID: 99:BA1:101 Discussion No comments yet. Languages: en. Please log in to comment. ◂ PreviousOverviewNext ▸