Laravel Passport provides OAuth2 server support to Laravel. From 13.0.0 to before 13.7.1, there is an Authentication Bypass for client_credentials tokens. the league/oauth2-server library sets the JWT sub claim to the client identifier (since there's no user). The token guard then passes this value to retrieveById() without validating it's actually a user identifier, potentially resolving an unrelated real user. Any machine-to-machine token can inadvertently authenticate as an actual user. This vulnerability is fixed in 13.7.1.

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Description Laravel Passport provides OAuth2 server support to Laravel. From 13.0.0 to before 13.7.1, there is an Authentication Bypass for client_credentials tokens. the league/oauth2-server library sets the JWT sub claim to the client identifier (since there's no user). The token guard then passes this value to retrieveById() without validating it's actually a user identifier, potentially resolving an unrelated real user. Any machine-to-machine token can inadvertently authenticate as an actual user. This vulnerability is fixed in 13.7.1.
Title Laravel Passport's TokenGuard Authenticates Unrelated User for Client Credentials Tokens
Weaknesses CWE-287
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N'}


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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

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Updated: 2026-04-09T16:50:42.326Z

Reserved: 2026-04-08T00:01:47.628Z

Link: CVE-2026-39976

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-04-09T17:16:31.267

Modified: 2026-04-09T17:16:31.267

Link: CVE-2026-39976

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