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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-2026-78372"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-24T13:09:23.489Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-24T17:26:40.258Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-78372"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-78372.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-78372"
title: "RansomLook Missing Authorization Allows Disclosure of Private Group and Ransom Note Data"
summary: "RansomLook does not consistently \nenforce authorization checks when accessing groups, markets, and ransom \nnotes marked as private. An unauthenticated or otherwise unauthorized \nremote attacker can access information associated with private entities \nthrough several web views and API endpoints.\n\n\nThe affected functionality can \ndisclose private group or market names, ransom-note content, and \nmetadata associated with private groups. The /compare\n functionality can also be queried directly with the name of a private \nentity, allowing an unauthorized user to retrieve information such as \npost counts, mirror totals, and uptime even when the entity is excluded \nfrom the normal user interface. The patch explicitly adds a privacy \ncheck before returning this information. \n\n\nRansom-note views, search results, \nand API endpoints were similarly missing consistent filtering. The fix \nintroduces normalized private-group identifiers and alias handling, then\n rejects or filters notes associated with private groups before \nreturning them to unauthorized callers.  \n\n\nAn attacker can exploit the issue \nremotely without authentication or user interaction, resulting in \ndisclosure of information that was explicitly intended to be restricted \nto authorized users."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"2.0.0"}],"vendor":"ransomlook","product":"ransomlook","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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