Описание
Communities and collections administrators can escalate their privilege up to system administrator
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
Once 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
Ссылки
- 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
Пакеты
org.dspace:dspace-api
>= 7.0, < 7.1
7.1
Связанные уязвимости
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.