# CyberArk Conjur missing validations, permission bypass

Source: https://startwithidentity.com/cves/cve-2025-49829/
Last updated: 2026-08-29
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## What broke

Conjur did not validate a resource identifier tightly enough. An authenticated (or, in the chain, forged) caller could inject a resource and skip a permission check. CVSS 6.0. Fixed in the same 1.22.1 / 13.6.1 train.

## Why it matters

A "medium" authorization bug is how a forged machine identity from [CVE-2025-49827](https://startwithidentity.com/cves/cve-2025-49827/) becomes a policy write, which becomes [template injection](https://startwithidentity.com/cves/cve-2025-49828/). Score the chain, not the CWE in isolation.

## What to do

- Upgrade with the rest of the Cyata set.
- Review Conjur policy for unexpected resource IDs created in mid-2025 if the authenticator was internet-reachable.

## After you patch

A vault compromise is not one credential, it is every credential the vault held or could issue.

- **Rotate everything in scope**, including secrets the vault issued dynamically during the exposure window, because a lease that was valid then may still be valid now.
- **Revoke active leases and tokens**, then review the audit device log for reads you cannot attribute to a known workload.
- **Rotate the vault's own credentials**: unseal or recovery keys, root tokens, and any authentication backend configuration that could be used to re-enter.
- **Rotate downstream credentials the vault brokered**, cloud roles, database users, and PKI certificates, since the point of the vault is that it can mint them. See [secrets rotation](https://startwithidentity.com/glossary/secrets-rotation/) and [what is secrets management](https://startwithidentity.com/guides/fundamentals/what-is-secrets-management/).

## Sources

- [NVD: CVE-2025-49829](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-49829)