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CVE-2026-72812: SiYuan: Missing authorization on refreshBacklink allows anonymous readers to trigger persistent server-side writes and unauthenticated resource amplification (publish mode)

September 3, 2026

The /api/ref/refreshBacklink endpoint is gated by CheckAuth only. Unlike its mutating siblings, it carries no CheckAdminRole, no CheckReadonly, and no inline reader-role guard so it falls through all three authorization mechanisms the codebase uses to protect write operations. A publish RoleReader or the anonymous account when Publish.Auth.Enable is false can invoke it, forcing the server to flush its pending write-transaction queue, scan all references globally, load and parse referencing trees from disk, and enqueue database writes. This violates the read-only invariant (it writes even in a globally read-only workspace), provides an unauthenticated resource-amplification/DoS primitive, and applies no per-object access check to the caller-supplied ID.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-wgwx-479j-23vq
  • github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/commit/7d273c271ce193b9d3ee5751b596b8093ba84ada
  • github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/security/advisories/GHSA-wgwx-479j-23vq
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72812
  • www.vulncheck.com/advisories/siyuan-before-missing-authorization-via-refreshbacklink

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.0.0-20260723002528-7d273c271ce1

Fixed versions

  • 0.0.0-20260723002528-7d273c271ce1

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.0.0-20260723002528-7d273c271ce1 or above.

Impact 6.5 MEDIUM

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-862: Missing Authorization

Source file

go/github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/kernel/CVE-2026-72812.yml

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