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title: "CVE-2026-105949: Cruise Control - Authentication Bypass"
description: "Cruise Control contains an authentication bypass caused by improper security constraint registration and path handling in ConstraintSecurityHandler, letting remote attackers access all admin endpoints without authentication, exploit requires crafted HTTP requests."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-105949/
---

# CVE-2026-105949 Cruise Control - Authentication Bypass

Cruise Control contains an authentication bypass caused by improper security constraint registration and path handling in ConstraintSecurityHandler, letting remote attackers access all admin endpoints without authentication, exploit requires crafted HTTP requests.

CVSS base score 8.8 /10

High

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Not required

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-105949)

## Details

Type

Authentication Bypass

Impact

Broken Authentication

CVSS vector

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

Published

20 October 2026

Updated

20 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-287](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/287.html)

## Vendor fix

Update Cruise Control to a version that properly registers security constraints with catch-all wildcards and calls setDenyUncoveredHttpMethods(true).

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-105949](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-105949)
- [https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-105949](https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-105949)
- [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show\_bug.cgi?id=2510878](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2510878)

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