CVE-2021-29452

Any logged in user could edit any other logged in user.

State
Published
Severity
8.1 High
Published
Apr 16, 2021
Updated
Aug 3, 2024
Reserved
Mar 30, 2021

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Description

a12n-server is an npm package which aims to provide a simple authentication system. A new HAL-Form was added to allow editing users in version 0.18.0. This feature should only have been accessible to admins. Unfortunately, privileges were incorrectly checked allowing any logged in user to make this change. Patched in v0.18.2.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-269 {"CWE-269":"Improper Privilege Management"}

Affected Products

ProductVersions
a12n-servercurveball
  • >= 0.18 < 0.18.2Affected

References

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