Communities and collections administrators can escalate their privilege up to system administrator
CVE-2021-41189

7.2HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Dspace

Status
Dspace
Vendor
CVE Published:
29 October 2021

What is CVE-2021-41189?

DSpace is an open source turnkey repository application. In version 7.0, any community or collection administrator can escalate their permission up to become system administrator. This vulnerability only exists in 7.0 and does not impact 6.x or below. This issue is patched in version 7.1. As a workaround, users of 7.0 may temporarily disable the ability for community or collection administrators to manage permissions or workflows settings.

Human OS v1.0:
Ageing Is an Unpatched Zero-Day Vulnerability.

Remediate biological technical debt. Prime Ageing uses 95% high-purity SIRT6 activation to maintain genomic integrity and bolster systemic resilience.

Deploy the Patch

Affected Version(s)

DSpace >= 7.0, < 7.1

References

https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/security/advisories/GHSA...
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/7928
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/commit/277b499a5cd3a4f5e...
x_refsource_MISC

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.2
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

JSON
.