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High severity8.8GHSA Advisory· Published Aug 28, 2026· Updated Sep 9, 2026

CVE-2026-55485

CVE-2026-55485

Description

Piccolo Admin is an admin interface and content management system for Python, built on top of Piccolo. Prior to 1.14.0, piccolo_admin/endpoints.py uses superuser_validators to block PUT, PATCH, DELETE, and POST requests by non-superusers but permits GET requests to configured user and session tables, while piccolo_api/session_auth/tables.py exposes SessionsBase.token because the token column is not secret. In deployments that add the Sessions and User tables to create_admin, a non-superuser administrator can call GET /api/tables/sessions/, obtain another user's live session token, replay it as the Cookie id value to impersonate a superuser, and permanently set superuser to true on the attacker's own row. This issue is fixed in version 1.14.0.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
piccolo-adminPyPI
< 1.14.01.14.0

Affected products

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Patches

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