CVE-2026-40869

Decidim is a participatory democracy framework. Starting in version 0.19.0 and prior to versions 0.30.5 and 0.31.1, a vulnerability allows any registered and authenticated user to accept or reject any amendments. The impact is on any users who have created proposals where the amendments feature i...

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CVE-2026-40869 Decidim amendments can be accepted or rejected by anyone

Decidim is a participatory democracy framework. Starting in version 0.19.0 and prior to versions 0.30.5 and 0.31.1, a vulnerability allows any registered and authenticated user to accept or reject any amendments. The impact is on any users who have created proposals where the amendments feature i...

Decidim amendments can be accepted or rejected by anyone

Impact The vulnerability allows any registered and authenticated user to accept or reject any amendments. The impact is on any users who have created proposals where the amendments feature is enabled. This also elevates the user accepting the amendment as the author of the original proposal as...

Missing Authorization

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Authorization in the amendment acceptance flow. An attacker can gain unauthorized coauthorship and modify proposal outcomes by submitting amendment accept or reject actions without proper authorization checks. Workaround This...

PT-2026-33228

Impact The vulnerability allows any registered and authenticated user to accept or reject any amendments. The impact is on any users who have created proposals where the amendments feature is enabled. This also elevates the user accepting the amendment as the author of the original proposal as...

CVE-2026-40395

Varnish Enterprise before 6.0.16r12 allows a "workspace overflow" denial of service daemon panic for shared VCL. The headerplus.writereq0 function from vmodheaderplus updates the underlying req0, which is normally the original read-only request from which req is derived readable and writable from...

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