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Medium 5.7Published Jan 8, 2026

CVE-2026-22042RustFS has IAM Incorrect Authorization in ImportIam that Allows Privilege Escalation

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

RustFS is a distributed object storage system built in Rust. Prior to version 1.0.0-alpha.79, he `ImportIam` admin API validates permissions using `ExportIAMAction` instead of `ImportIAMAction`, allowing a principal with export-only IAM permissions to perform import operations. Since importing IAM data performs privileged write actions (creating/updating users, groups, policies, and service accounts), this can lead to unauthorized IAM modification and privilege escalation. Version 1.0.0-alpha.79 fixes the issue.

CVSS
5.7 MEDIUM (v4.0, CNA)CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-285, CWE-863
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
GitHub_M
NVD analysis
Analyzed
Record last updated
Jan 8, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
rustfs rustfs
rustfs:rustfs (from the name)
before 1.0.0-alpha.79
CNA record
rustfs rustfs
rustfs:rustfs
1.0.0; 1.0.0; 1.0.0; 1.0.0; 1.0.0; 1.0.0; 1.0.0; 1.0.0; and 70 more ranges
NVD

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