Description
A vulnerability in the administration REST interface of Azul Payara allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to bypass secure-admin remote-access restrictions by supplying an arbitrary value in the X-GlassFish-authToken HTTP header. The header's presence waives the remote-rejection check before the token is validated, and an invalid token falls through to password-based authentication, which succeeds without credentials on default domains configured with an empty administrative password. Successful exploitation grants execution of arbitrary administrative commands, equivalent to complete compromise of the server.
Published: 2026-11-12
Score: 9.3 Critical
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Thu, 12 Nov 2026 20:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Payara
Payara payara Server
Vendors & Products Payara
Payara payara Server

Thu, 12 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0000

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Description A vulnerability in the administration REST interface of Azul Payara allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to bypass secure-admin remote-access restrictions by supplying an arbitrary value in the X-GlassFish-authToken HTTP header. The header's presence waives the remote-rejection check before the token is validated, and an invalid token falls through to password-based authentication, which succeeds without credentials on default domains configured with an empty administrative password. Successful exploitation grants execution of arbitrary administrative commands, equivalent to complete compromise of the server.
Title Azul Payara Administration REST Interface Authentication Bypass via X-GlassFish-authToken Header Leading to Remote Code Execution
Weaknesses CWE-288
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 9.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

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Payara Payara Server
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Payara

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-12T08:43:19.548Z

Reserved: 2026-10-13T13:52:54.391Z

Link: CVE-2026-110003

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-11-12T09:16:39.813

Modified: 2026-11-12T09:16:39.813

Link: CVE-2026-110003

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Updated: 2026-11-12T19:45:08Z

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