---
id: CVE-2026-88817
title: >-
  An authenticated, non-guest user of Curiosity Workspace could enroll
  themselves as an administrator and member of an existing access group without
  an invitation or approval.




  It did not grant application-wide administrator privileges, …
summary: >-
  An authenticated, non-guest user of Curiosity Workspace could enroll
  themselves as an administrator and member of an existing access group without
  an invitation or approval.




  It did not grant application-wide administrator privileges, …
severity: high
cvss: 8.7
cvssVector: 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'
cwe:
  - CWE-269
  - CWE-284
vendor: Curiosity GmbH
product: Curiosity Workspace
affected:
  - curiosity_workspace 26.8.70362
published: '2026-09-16'
updated: '2026-09-23'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-23T11:10:00.187'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-88817'
references:
  - url: 'https://docs.curiosity.ai/security/advisories/cve-2026-88817'
    label: cert@airbus.com
tags:
  - nvd
  - cve.org
epss: 0.00351
epssPercentile: 0.26031
ssvc:
  exploitation: none
  automatable: 'no'
  technicalImpact: total
  timestamp: '2026-09-16T13:11:20.243964Z'
cvssSource: cna
ingestedAt: '2026-09-16T12:55:21.864Z'
---

## Overview

An authenticated, non-guest user of Curiosity Workspace could enroll themselves as an administrator and member of an existing access group without an invitation or approval.



It did not grant application-wide administrator privileges, and the vulnerability could not be used to obtain root access to the application or its underlying host.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.