# CVE-2026-68551: Budget Board account takeover via unverified email in OIDC login

Only affects Budget Board instances with OIDC login enabled and pointed at an identity provider that lets users claim an email address without proving ownership. Fixed in 3.6.2.

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-125723
- Severity: CVSS 8.3 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Exposure: Unclear
- Attention: Reference. No open trigger. (last checked 2026-11-13)
- Fixed in: 3.6.2
- Published: 2026-11-13 · Updated: 2026-11-13

CVE-2026-68551 is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. No public exploit code is tracked. It is rated CVSS 8.3 (high) and affects budget-board; fixed in 3.6.2.

## Summary

Budget Board, a personal budgeting app, can let an attacker sign into a victim's existing account through its OIDC login flow, which matches accounts by email address without checking that the address is verified. An attacker can do this remotely without logging in, provided the configured identity provider lets users register or display an email address they have not proven they own, and the attacker gets access to the victim's linked bank data.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Who should check

Teams running Budget Board (BudgetBoard.WebAPI) with OIDC login enabled against a self-hosted or open-registration identity provider that may not verify email addresses.

Source: https://github.com/teelur/budget-board/security/advisories/GHSA-576g-r8m3-q9vp ("Budget Board's OIDC login flow finds and signs into an existing local account purely by matching the email address")

## Affected

- teelur budget-board: fixed in 3.6.2

## Description

Budget Board is an app for tracking monthly spending and working towards financial goals. Prior to version 3.6.2, Budget Board's OIDC login flow finds and signs into an existing local account purely by matching the email address asserted in the identity provider's token - it never checks the standard email_verified claim. If the configured OIDC provider ever allows a user to register or display an email address without proving they own it , an attacker can register there using a victim's email and get signed into the victim's existing Budget Board account - including all their linked bank data. This issue has been patched in version 3.6.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on teelur budget-board, upgrade to a fixed version (3.6.2) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, run the stack.check operation (execute) on the cve.now MCP server (https://mcp.cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Check your systems with an agent

```text
Check whether my systems are affected by CVE-2026-68551 (Budget Board's OIDC login links to an existing local account by email alone, with no email_verified check, enabling account takeover of…), using the cve.now data below.

Rules: work read-only. Do not run exploit code, proof-of-concept scripts or scanners that send attack payloads, and do not change any configuration, package, image or deployment. Report findings only.

What cve.now has for CVE-2026-68551 (entry last updated 2026-11-13):
Affected:
- teelur budget-board: fixed in 3.6.2
Fixed versions: 3.6.2.
Conditions (all must be true for the bug to be hit):
- OIDC login is enabled and pointed at an identity provider (source: https://github.com/teelur/budget-board/security/advisories/GHSA-576g-r8m3-q9vp)
- The configured OIDC provider lets a user register or display an email address without proving ownership of it (source: https://github.com/teelur/budget-board/security/advisories/GHSA-576g-r8m3-q9vp)
- The victim has an existing local Budget Board account with the same email address (source: https://github.com/teelur/budget-board/security/advisories/GHSA-576g-r8m3-q9vp)
Setup: unknown whether the bug needs a non-default feature or setting. Check the advisory.
Attacker needs: network access, no login, no user action.
CISA KEV: CVE-2026-68551 is not listed as of cve.now's last read.
This KEV status is for CVE-2026-68551 only. If you also check another CVE, look up its own KEV status; never assume it from this one.

How to check:
- Installed software: check what is actually running, not what a repo declares. Read the version from each host, container image and Kubernetes node (the binary's version output, the OS package database, image layers), and check whether the conditions above hold there. Distribution packages may carry a backported fix under an older version number; confirm against the distribution's own advisory.

Verify against the linked advisories before concluding, and cite the date you read each one:
- https://github.com/teelur/budget-board/security/advisories/GHSA-576g-r8m3-q9vp
- https://github.com/teelur/budget-board/pull/956
- https://github.com/teelur/budget-board/commit/8c050368e6a01c72f41ab39be913fbf95f1cb253
- https://github.com/teelur/budget-board/releases/tag/v3.6.2
Do not conclude an asset is unaffected unless you checked it and the evidence covers both its version and the conditions above. If you could not check something, mark it unknown and say what is missing.

Report a table with one row per asset and these columns: Asset | Version or build | Status (affected, fixed, not applicable, unknown) | Compensating controls | Exposure (internet-facing, internal, none) | Evidence | Next action.

Entry: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-68551
For follow-up questions, use the cve.now MCP server at https://mcp.cve.now/mcp (no authentication), for example execute with name cve.get and arguments {"id": "CVE-2026-68551"}.
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## FAQ

### Is CVE-2026-68551 being exploited?

It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. CISA's SSVC assessment notes a proof of concept exists. No public exploit code is tracked.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-68551

### What does this mean?

OIDC login signs a person into an existing local Budget Board account by matching only the email address, without checking that the email is verified. If the identity provider lets someone register or display an email they do not own, that person can be signed into the victim's account, gaining full access to linked bank accounts, balances, transactions and budgets, and the ability to modify or delete that data.

Source: https://github.com/teelur/budget-board/security/advisories/GHSA-576g-r8m3-q9vp

### Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-68551?

budget-board: before 3.6.2.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-68551

### Am I affected, and how do I check?

Affected setups have OIDC login enabled and pointed at an identity provider that can let a user register or display an email address without proving ownership, and the account holder has a local Budget Board account with that same email. Versions before 3.6.2 are in the affected range, so check the installed Budget Board version and whether OIDC login is enabled in the instance settings.

Source: https://github.com/teelur/budget-board/security/advisories/GHSA-576g-r8m3-q9vp

### How do I fix CVE-2026-68551?

Upgrade Budget Board to 3.6.2 or later, which is the fixed version listed for this vulnerability.

Source: https://github.com/teelur/budget-board/security/advisories/GHSA-576g-r8m3-q9vp

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## References

### Vendor advisory

Establishes: Affected and fixed versions.

- https://github.com/teelur/budget-board/security/advisories/GHSA-576g-r8m3-q9vp

### CVE record

Establishes: The identifier and description.

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68551
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-68551

### Other links

- https://github.com/teelur/budget-board/pull/956
- https://github.com/teelur/budget-board/commit/8c050368e6a01c72f41ab39be913fbf95f1cb253
- https://github.com/teelur/budget-board/releases/tag/v3.6.2

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