CVE-2024-25633

In eLabFTW, if administrators can create users, users can too

State: Published
Severity: 5.4 Medium
Published: Aug 15, 2024
Updated: Aug 19, 2024
Reserved: Feb 8, 2024

Description

eLabFTW is an open source electronic lab notebook for research labs. In an eLabFTW system, one can configure who is allowed to create new user accounts. A vulnerability has been found starting in version 4.4.0 and prior to version 5.0.0 that allows regular users to create new, validated accounts in their team. If the system has anonymous access enabled (disabled by default) an unauthenticated user can create regular users in any team. This vulnerability has been fixed since version 5.0.0, released on February 17th 2024. Some workarounds are available. Disabling both options that allow *administrators* to create users will provide a mitigation. Additionally, disabling anonymous user access will stop anonymous access (including using existing access keys).

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.4 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Affected Products

Product	Versions
elabftwelabftw	>= 4.4.0, < 5.0.0Affected

References

https://github.com/elabftw/elabftw/security/advisories/GHSA-v677-8x8p-636v

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