InvenTree has Arbitrary API Token Creation

Description

InvenTree is an Open Source Inventory Management System. From 0.16.0 to before 1.2.7, any authenticated InvenTree user can create a valid API token attributed to any other user in the system — including administrators and superusers — by supplying the target's user ID in the user field of a POST /api/user/tokens/ request. The returned token is immediately usable for full API authentication as the target user, from any network location, with no further interaction required. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.2.7 and 1.3.0.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.31% · top 76% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.3.

Weakness

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

Affected products

• inventree · InvenTree

  • affected >= 0.16.0, < 1.2.7

References (1)

• https://github.com/inventree/InvenTree/security/advisories/GHSA-qh5j-c28q-c4rg (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM

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-2026-35478](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2026-35478.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2026-35478)

Record last updated 8 Apr 2026, 20:12 UTC.