| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|
| backpack/crud | ≥ 6.0.0, < 6.8.15≥ 7.0.0, < 7.0.47 | 6.8.157.0.47 |
Affected area: HasMany / MorphMany relation handling during CRUD create and update operations
CWE: CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
Severity: Medium
CVSS: 6.5 — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Backpack CRUD contained an authorization issue in the way certain HasMany and MorphMany relationship fields were processed during create and update operations.
When an admin form allowed users to manage multiple related records, Backpack could update related model records based on submitted primary keys without sufficiently checking whether those records were eligible to be associated with the current parent model.
This could allow an authenticated, low-privileged admin user to affect related records outside the intended authorization or tenancy boundary, if the affected CRUD form exposed this type of relationship field.
The vulnerable logic processed submitted relationship values and updated matching related records without consistently limiting those updates to records that already belonged to the current parent model, or to records allowed by the developer-defined relation scope.
As a result, a user with permission to edit one parent record could potentially cause unrelated child records to be reassigned, detached, nulled, or deleted as a side effect of saving the form.
This issue is separate from earlier fixes that scoped direct CRUD operations on the main entity. Those protections covered the model being directly edited, but they did not fully cover secondary models modified through relationship-saving logic.
An authenticated admin user with access to an affected CRUD operation could potentially cause unauthorized changes to related records.
Possible impact includes:
The issue requires an authenticated admin account with edit access to a CRUD entity that exposes an affected HasMany or MorphMany multiple-relation field.
An application may be affected when all of the following are true:
Backpack should scope relationship attach and detach operations so they only affect records that are valid for the current parent model and relation context.
The fix should ensure that related records are filtered through the relation’s intended query scope, ownership rules, or other developer-defined constraints before any update, detach, null, or delete operation occurs.
Applications using affected relationship fields should also validate submitted relation IDs server-side, especially in multi-tenant or permission-sensitive admin panels.
The issue was confirmed through an internal PHPUnit test against Backpack’s existing Testbench fixtures.
The test demonstrated that, before the fix, a related record owned by one parent model could be reassigned to another parent model through the relationship-saving flow, without an explicit ownership or authorization check.
After applying the fix, submitted relationship values are constrained before related records are modified, preventing unauthorized reassignment or removal.
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