Summary
CVE-2026-72692 is a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in OpenSignLabs opensignserver through version 2.37.0. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can irreversibly decline any in-flight document and forge the decline attribution to an arbitrary user via the declinedoc Parse cloud function, resulting in a HIGH-severity (CVSS 7.5) integrity impact.
Technical details
- Root cause: The
declinedoccloud function fails to verify the caller’s identity while accepting user-controlled parameters. It writesIsDeclined,DeclineReason, and a caller-suppliedDeclineBypointer without validating who is making the request. - Trigger conditions: An attacker submits a decline request against an accessible document without authenticating, supplying an arbitrary
DeclineByvalue. - Attack vector: Network — remotely exploitable with no privileges and no user interaction.
- Impact: Workflow termination (a document’s signing process is irreversibly declined) and evidentiary record falsification (the decline is attributed to an arbitrary user), compromising the integrity of the signing audit record.
Affected software
- OpenSignLabs opensignserver, all versions from 0 through 2.37.0 (2.37.0 and earlier).
Severity
- CVSS v3.1 base score: 7.5 (HIGH)
- Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Mitigation and recommended actions
- Immediate: Upgrade opensignserver to a release later than 2.37.0. Subsequent releases (2.38.0, 2.39.0, 2.40.0, and 2.40.1) are available; deploy the latest available release.
- If no patch can be applied: Restrict network exposure of the opensignserver instance and its Parse cloud functions (for example, place it behind authenticated reverse-proxy controls or IP allow-listing) so that the
declinedocendpoint is not reachable by untrusted networks, and monitor for unexpected document decline events.
How IONIX identifies potentially affected assets
IONIX matches the following signals against data already collected when it crawled the asset; identifying the technology sends no request beyond that crawl.
- Raw response body:
opensign-server is running!!! descriptionmeta tag content:The fastest way to sign PDFs & request signatures from others

