Description


An improper authentication vulnerability in the is_authenticated function (src/bolt/bolt_api.c) in FalkorDB before 4.20.0 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute graph queries without credentials through the Bolt endpoint. The function decides whether a password is required by issuing an empty AUTH command to Redis and treats only a WRONGPASS error as meaning that a password is required; any other error, such as LOADING while a dataset is being loaded, MASTERDOWN during replication failover, or OOM under memory pressure, causes the client to be treated as authenticated. Only deployments that enable the Bolt endpoint (BOLT_PORT, disabled by default) are affected.

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Weaknesses


33c584b5-0579-4c06-b2a0-8d8329fcab9c

Secondary

CWE-287

CVSS impact metrics


CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

8.1 · High

Information


Source identifier

33c584b5-0579-4c06-b2a0-8d8329fcab9c

Vulnerability status

Deferred

Published

2026-10-09T06:17:12.457Z

2 hours ago

Last modified

2026-10-09T06:17:12.577Z

2 hours ago