Rallly Broken Authorization: Any User Can Pause or Resume Any Poll via Poll ID Manipulation

Description

Rallly is an open-source scheduling and collaboration tool. Prior to version 4.5.4, an authorization flaw in the poll management feature allows any authenticated user to pause or resume any poll, regardless of ownership. The system only uses the public pollId to identify polls, and it does not verify whether the user performing the action is the poll owner. As a result, any user can disrupt polls created by others, leading to a loss of integrity and availability across the application. This issue has been patched in version 4.5.4.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.36% · top 71% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.

Weakness

• CWE-285: Improper Authorization (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-285 and its CVEs
• CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-639 and its CVEs

Affected products

• lukevella · rallly

  • affected < 4.5.4

References (2)

• https://github.com/lukevella/rallly/security/advisories/GHSA-4p93-v53r-vch3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMexploit
• https://github.com/lukevella/rallly/releases/tag/v4.5.4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2025-65033](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2025-65033.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2025-65033)

Record last updated 19 Nov 2025, 20:03 UTC.