CVE-2026-78380
Received Received - Intake

Information Disclosure in RansomLook via Private Group Posts

Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-78380, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-08-24

Last updated on: 2026-08-24

Assigner: CIRCL

Description

RansomLook fails to enforce the privacy status of ransomware groups and markets when distributing newly collected victim posts to external notification channels. The post-processing logic checks whether an individual post is marked private but does not verify whether the group or market to which the post belongs is configured as private. As a result, newly parsed victim information associated with a private group or market may be automatically published through enabled Rocket.Chat, Mastodon, Bluesky, and e-mail notification channels despite the entity being explicitly configured to prevent public disclosure. A similar issue affects the public MISP feed. The feed previously determined privacy using groupinfo(), which only queries the group database. Consequently, victim information associated with private markets could be added to the public MISP feed because the corresponding market privacy flag was not evaluated. An attacker or other unauthorized party able to access these public notification channels or the MISP feed may obtain victim information that was intended to remain private. Depending on the collected data, this may disclose victim names, ransomware activity, incident information, or other information associated with privately monitored groups and markets. The fix introduces a common is_private_entity() check covering both groups and markets and prevents private entity posts from being distributed through external notification channels or the public MISP feed. Internal storage and dashboard alerting remain unaffected.

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Published
2026-08-24
Last Modified
2026-08-24
Generated
2026-08-24
AI Q&A
2026-08-24
EPSS Evaluated
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Affected Vendors & Products

Showing 6 associated CPEs
Vendor Product Version / Range
rocket.chat rocket.chat *
mastodon mastodon *
bluesky bluesky *
misp misp *
ransomlook ransomlook *
rocket_chat rocket_chat *

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Exploitability

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CWE-862 The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

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Executive Summary

RansomLook fails to enforce privacy settings for ransomware groups and markets when sharing victim posts. It checks if individual posts are private but ignores whether the associated group or market is marked private. This causes sensitive victim data to be published through public channels like Rocket.Chat, Mastodon, Bluesky, email, and the MISP feed even when the group or market should remain private.

Detection Guidance

Check if your RansomLook instance is broadcasting posts from private groups or markets to public channels. Review logs for outbound notifications to Rocket.Chat, Mastodon, Bluesky, email, or MISP feed. Verify if the is_private_entity() function is implemented in misp_feed.py, posts.py, and sharedutils.py.

Impact Analysis

Unauthorized parties could access public notification channels or the MISP feed to obtain private victim information. This may include victim names, ransomware activity details, incident data, or other sensitive information tied to privately monitored groups and markets.

Compliance Impact

This vulnerability could lead to unauthorized disclosure of sensitive victim information through public channels or feeds, potentially violating data protection requirements under GDPR and HIPAA. If victim data includes personally identifiable information or protected health information, the exposure may result in non-compliance with these regulations due to improper handling of private data.

Mitigation Strategies

Apply the patch from the RansomLook commit 133cbeab3abdd64c22b02165c6505bb3e53698cc. Ensure the is_private_entity() function is active to block private group/market posts from public channels. Temporarily disable external notifications until the fix is confirmed.

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