# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-6266"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-04T13:47:07.260Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-27T12:04:40.119Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-6266"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-6266.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-6266"
title: "Aap-controller: aap-gateway: account hijacking and unauthorized access via unverified email linking"
summary: "A flaw was found in the AAP gateway. The user auto-link strategy, introduced in AAP 2.6, automatically links an external Identity Provider (IDP) identity to an existing AAP user account based on email matching without verifying email ownership. This allows a remote attacker to potentially hijack a victim's account or gain unauthorized access to other accounts, including administrative accounts, by manipulating the IDP-provided email."
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