CVE-2026-77337

Summary

CakePHP Authentication is an authentication plugin for CakePHP that can also be used in PSR-7 based applications. Versions before 2.11.2, from 3.0.0 through 3.3.6, and from 4.0.0 through 4.2.0 allow authentication bypass and potential CPU or memory exhaustion when CookieAuthenticator uses unencrypted, forgeable legacy tokens. This issue is fixed in versions 2.11.2, 3.3.7, and 4.2.1.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
cakephpauthentication< 2.11.2affected
cakephpauthentication>= 3.0.0, < 3.3.7affected
cakephpauthentication>= 4.0.0, < 4.2.1affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-290: CWE-290: Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
  • CWE-770: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References