Clerk has an authorization bypass when combining organization, billing, or reverification checks - @clerk/clerk-react

Description

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.

Recommendation

Update the @clerk/clerk-react package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): >= 5.9.0, <= 5.61.5
• Patched version(s): 5.61.6

References

• GHSA-w24r-5266-9c3c
• CVE-2026-42349
• CWE-754
• CWE-863
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A1
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Clerk has an authorization bypass when combining organization, billing, or reverification checks - @clerk/react-router - CVE-2026-42349
• Clerk has an authorization bypass when combining organization, billing, or reverification checks - @clerk/react - CVE-2026-42349
• Clerk has an authorization bypass when combining organization, billing, or reverification checks - @clerk/nextjs - CVE-2026-42349
• Clerk has an authorization bypass when combining organization, billing, or reverification checks - @clerk/nuxt - CVE-2026-42349

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@clerk/clerk-react