Description
SiYuan is a personal knowledge management system. Prior to version 3.6.2, a malicious website can achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE) on any desktop running SiYuan by exploiting the permissive CORS policy (Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * + Access-Control-Allow-Private-Network: true) to inject a JavaScript snippet via the API. The injected snippet executes in Electron's Node.js context with full OS access the next time the user opens SiYuan's UI. No user interaction is required beyond visiting the malicious website while SiYuan is running. This issue has been patched in version 3.6.2.
Published: 2026-03-31
Score: 9.7 Critical
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-68p4-j234-43mv SiYuan is Vulnerable to Cross-Origin RCE via Permissive CORS Policy and JavaScript Snippet Injection
History

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:15:00 +0000

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Description SiYuan is a personal knowledge management system. Prior to version 3.6.2, a malicious website can achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE) on any desktop running SiYuan by exploiting the permissive CORS policy (Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * + Access-Control-Allow-Private-Network: true) to inject a JavaScript snippet via the API. The injected snippet executes in Electron's Node.js context with full OS access the next time the user opens SiYuan's UI. No user interaction is required beyond visiting the malicious website while SiYuan is running. This issue has been patched in version 3.6.2.
Title SiYuan: Cross-Origin RCE via Permissive CORS Policy and JavaScript Snippet Injection
Weaknesses CWE-942
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-01T15:52:56.545Z

Reserved: 2026-03-27T18:18:14.895Z

Link: CVE-2026-34449

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Status : Undergoing Analysis

Published: 2026-03-31T22:16:19.830

Modified: 2026-04-01T17:28:40.500

Link: CVE-2026-34449

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