Advisories for Npm/@Clerk/Backend package

2026

Clerk has an authorization bypass when combining organization, billing, or reverification checks

has(), auth.protect(), and related authorization predicates in @clerk/shared, @clerk/nextjs, @clerk/backend, and other framework SDKs can return true for certain combined authorization checks when the result should be false, allowing a gated action to proceed for a user who does not satisfy the full set of requested conditions. Sessions are not compromised and no existing user can be impersonated. The bypass is limited to the authorization decision returned by the predicate. …

2025