Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-49231
Authentication Bypass by Spoofing vulnerability in opa plugin.
An attacker could relay spoofed identity headers to upstream capitalising on non-default configuration in opa plugin.
This could allow the attacker to assume higher privileges on the upstream service.
This issue affects Apache APISIX: from 3.5.0 through 3.16.0.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.17.0, which fixes the issue.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.004
EPSS Ranking 27.2%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.4
Products affected by CVE-2026-49231
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apisix:3.10.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apisix:3.11.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apisix:3.12.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apisix:3.13.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apisix:3.14.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apisix:3.14.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apisix:3.15.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apisix:3.16.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apisix:3.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apisix:3.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apisix:3.6.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apisix:3.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apisix:3.8.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apisix:3.8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apisix:3.9.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apisix:3.9.1