# CVE-2026-81892: EasyAdmin custom-action dispatcher bypasses access\_control on other routes

- Also known as: GHSA-G2FM-8HR4-J82H
- Severity: CVSS 8.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.29.16, 5.5.1
- Published: 2026-08-31 · Updated: 2026-09-03

## Affected

- EasyCorp EasyAdminBundle: from 4.0.0, fixed in 4.29.16; from 5.0.0, fixed in 5.5.1
- easycorp/easyadmin-bundle (Packagist): from 4.0.0, fixed in 4.29.16
- easycorp/easyadmin-bundle (Packagist): from 5.0.0, fixed in 5.5.1

## Description

EasyAdmin is a fast and modern admin generator for Symfony applications. From 4.0.0 until 4.29.16 and 5.5.1, EasyAdmin serves all backend requests through a single dashboard route and, for custom actions (Action::linkToRoute() and MenuItem::linkToRoute()), swaps the executed controller based on the routeName query parameter on the kernel.controller event. The swap happens after Symfony's security firewall has already evaluated access_control against the original dashboard URL, and the routeName value was not validated. As a result, a path-based access_control rule protecting the target route was never evaluated, so a low-privilege backend user who can reach a single EasyAdmin URL and knows a target route's name can execute that route's controller, bypassing the path-based rule. Only path-based protections are bypassed. Routes whose controller enforces its own authorization with #[IsGranted] or denyAccessUnlessGranted() remain protected because those checks are recomputed against the swapped-in controller. This issue is fixed in versions 4.29.16 and 5.5.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on EasyCorp EasyAdminBundle, easycorp/easyadmin-bundle, upgrade to a fixed version (4.29.16, 5.5.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/EasyCorp/EasyAdminBundle/security/advisories/GHSA-g2fm-8hr4-j82h
- https://github.com/EasyCorp/EasyAdminBundle/commit/03be45c6b7213c4c984a1d0542b7ec60359329f8
- https://github.com/EasyCorp/EasyAdminBundle/commit/6228dfef598d81eeb0baa35625e50812f3c77699
- https://github.com/EasyCorp/EasyAdminBundle/releases/tag/v4.29.16
- https://github.com/EasyCorp/EasyAdminBundle/releases/tag/v5.5.1

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