Vulnerability · Published May 31, 2022 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2022-31007Privilege escalation from administrator in eLabFTW
Medium 4.9
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in elabftw from elabftw. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 26.9% (higher than 98% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
eLabFTW is an electronic lab notebook manager for research teams. Prior to version 4.3.0, a vulnerability allows an authenticated user with an administrator role in a team to assign itself system administrator privileges within the application, or create a new system administrator account. The issue has been corrected in eLabFTW version 4.3.0. In the context of eLabFTW, an administrator is a user account with certain privileges to manage users and content in their assigned team/teams. A system administrator account can manage all accounts, teams and edit system-wide settings within the application. The impact is not deemed as high, as it requires the attacker to have access to an administrator account. Regular user accounts cannot exploit this to gain admin rights. A workaround for one if the issues is removing the ability of administrators to create accounts.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-842, CWE-1287 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
References
- https://github.com/elabftw/elabftw/security/advisories/GHSA-937c-m7p3-775v x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/elabftw/elabftw/releases/tag/4.3.0 x_refsource_MISC