Vulnerability · Published Apr 14, 2023 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2022-45178
High 8.8
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.0% (higher than 62% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
An issue was discovered in LIVEBOX Collaboration vDesk through v018. Broken Access Control exists under the /api/v1/vdeskintegration/saml/user/createorupdate endpoint, the /settings/guest-settings endpoint, the /settings/samlusers-settings endpoint, and the /settings/users-settings endpoint. A malicious user (already logged in as a SAML User) is able to achieve privilege escalation from a low-privilege user (FGM user) to an administrative user (GGU user), including the administrator, or create new users even without an admin role.