CVE-2024-25108

Insufficient authorization allowing elevated access to resources in pixelfed

State
Published
Severity
9.9 Critical
Published
Feb 12, 2024
Updated
May 7, 2025
Reserved
Feb 5, 2024

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Description

Pixelfed is an open source photo sharing platform. When processing requests authorization was improperly and insufficiently checked, allowing attackers to access far more functionality than users intended, including to the administrative and moderator functionality of the Pixelfed server. This vulnerability affects every version of Pixelfed between v0.10.4 and v0.11.9, inclusive. A proof of concept of this vulnerability exists. This vulnerability affects every local user of a Pixelfed server, and can potentially affect the servers' ability to federate. Some user interaction is required to setup the conditions to be able to exercise the vulnerability, but the attacker could conduct this attack time-delayed manner, where user interaction is not actively required. This vulnerability has been addressed in version 0.11.11. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.9 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:LGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-280 Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges
  • CWE-285 Improper Authorization
  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

Affected Products

ProductVersions
pixelfedpixelfed
  • >= 0.10.4, < 0.11.11Affected

References

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