GHSA-cf2j-vf36-c6w8
Suggest an improvement- Source
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cf2j-vf36-c6w8
- Import Source
- https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2021/11/GHSA-cf2j-vf36-c6w8/GHSA-cf2j-vf36-c6w8.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-cf2j-vf36-c6w8
- Aliases
- Published
- 2021-11-01T19:18:16Z
- Modified
- 2023-11-01T04:56:26.713676Z
- Severity
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- 7.2 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- Communities and collections administrators can escalate their privilege up to system administrator
- Details
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Impact
Any community or collection administrator can escalate their permission up to become system administrator.
This vulnerability only existed in 7.0 and does not impact 6.x or below.
Patches
Fix is included in 7.1. Please upgrade to 7.1 at your earliest convenience.
Workarounds
In 7.0, temporarily disable the ability for community or collection administrators to manage permissions or workflows settings, i.e. set the following properties in your local.cfg / dspace.cfg file
core.authorization.collection-admin.policies = false core.authorization.community-admin.policies = false core.authorization.community-admin.collection.workflows = falseOnce upgraded to 7.1, these settings can be safely reverted to the default values of
true.References
Discovered during investigation of https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/7928
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Email us at security@dspace.org
- Database specific
{ "nvd_published_at": "2021-10-29T18:15:00Z", "github_reviewed_at": "2021-10-29T17:26:35Z", "severity": "HIGH", "github_reviewed": true, "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-863" ] }- References
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- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/security/advisories/GHSA-cf2j-vf36-c6w8
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41189
- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/7928
- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/commit/277b499a5cd3a4f5eb2370513a1b7e4ec2a6e041
- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/commit/c3bea16ab911606e15ae96c97a1575e1ffb14f8a
- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace
Affected packages
Maven / org.dspace:dspace-api
Package
- Name
- org.dspace:dspace-api
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- Purl
- pkg:maven/org.dspace/dspace-api