# CVE-2026-40603: Chartbrew: Incorrect Access Control in /api/project/dashboard/:brewName via same-team override

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-04-30 · Updated: 2026-04-30

## Affected

- chartbrew: 4.9.0

## Description

Chartbrew is an open-source web application that can connect directly to databases and APIs and use the data to create charts. In version 4.9.0, Chartbrew exposes a legacy dashboard route that returns a project's report data to any authenticated member of the same team, even when that user does not have access to the specific project. The route bypasses project-level authorization and returns the raw project object. As a result, a low-privileged same-team user can read another project's dashboard data and recover the project's stored report password from the response. This issue has been patched in version 5.0.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on chartbrew, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/chartbrew/chartbrew/security/advisories/GHSA-6qr3-g75h-xm3f
- https://github.com/chartbrew/chartbrew/releases/tag/v5.0.0

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