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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.6 High

CVE-2026-42349

Clerk: Authorization bypass when combining organization, billing, or reverification checks

Description

Clerk JavaScript is the official JavaScript repository for Clerk authentication. has(), auth.protect(), and related authorization predicates in @clerk/shared, @clerk/nextjs, @clerk/backend, and other framework SDKs can return true for certain combined authorization checks when the result should be false, allowing a gated action to proceed for a user who does not satisfy the full set of requested conditions. This call shape can be bypassed if certain conditions are met: a has() or auth.protect() call that combines a reverification check with any of role, permission, feature, or plan, or that combines a billing check (feature or plan) with a role or permission check. This vulnerability is fixed in @clerk/clerk-js 5.125.10 and 6.7.5.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

clerk javascript

  • >= 5.22.0, < 5.125.10affected
  • >= 6.0.0, < 6.7.5affected

@clerk shared

  • >= 3.0.0, <= 3.47.4affected
  • >= 4.0.0, <= 4.8.2affected

@clerk backend

  • >= 2.0.0, <= 2.33.2affected
  • >= 3.0.0, <= 3.2.13affected

@clerk nextjs

  • >= 6.0.0, <= 6.39.2affected
  • >= 7.0.0, <= 7.2.3affected

@clerk clerk-react

  • >= 5.9.0, <= 5.61.5affected

@clerk react

  • >= 6.0.0, <= 6.4.2affected

@clerk vue

  • >= 1.0.0, <= 1.17.20affected
  • >= 2.0.0, <= 2.0.15affected

@clerk astro

  • >= 2.0.0, <= 2.17.10affected
  • >= 3.0.0, <= 3.0.17affected

@clerk nuxt

  • >= 1.0.0, <= 1.13.28affected
  • >= 2.0.0, <= 2.2.4affected

@clerk clerk-expo

  • >= 2.2.11, <= 2.19.35affected

@clerk expo

  • >= 3.0.0, <= 3.2.1affected

@clerk react-router

  • >= 0.0.1, <= 2.4.12affected
  • >= 3.0.0, <= 3.1.3affected

@clerk tanstack-react-start

  • >= 0.0.1, <= 0.29.10affected
  • >= 1.0.0, <= 1.1.3affected

@clerk chrome-extension

  • >= 1.3.5, <= 2.9.14affected
  • >= 3.0.0, <= 3.1.14affected

@clerk fastify

  • >= 1.0.42, <= 2.6.30affected
  • >= 3.0.0, <= 3.1.15affected

@clerk express

  • >= 0.1.0, <= 1.7.78affected
  • >= 2.0.0, <= 2.1.5affected

@clerk hono

  • >= 0.0.2, <= 0.1.15affected

References